Psalms 119:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַ֭תָּה צִוִּ֥יתָה פִקֻּדֶ֗יךָ לִשְׁמֹ֥ר מְאֹֽד׃

Transliteration

ʾattâ ṣiwwîtâ p̄iqqudêḵā to-šəmōr məʾōd

Grammar Details

• *ʾattâ*: 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - you
• *ṣiwwîtâ*: Piel perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you have commanded
• *p̄iqqudêḵā*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your precepts
• to-*šəmōr*: preposition *lə* + Qal infinitive construct - to keep/observe
• *məʾōd*: adverb - very/exceedingly/diligently

Word Meanings

• *ṣiwwîtâ*: commanded/ordered/charged
• *p̄iqqudêḵā*: precepts/commandments/orders/decrees
• *šəmōr*: keep/observe/guard/watch
• *məʾōd*: very/exceedingly/diligently/carefully

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 5:3 : 3 for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;
• Deut 4:1 : 1 `And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you.
• Deut 4:9 : 9 `Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.
• Deut 5:29-33 : 29 O that their heart had been thus to them, to fear Me, and to keep My commands all the days, that it may be well with them, and with their sons -- to the age! 30 `Go, say to them, Turn back for yourselves, to your tents; 31 and thou here stand thou with Me, and let Me speak unto thee all the command, and the statutes, and the judgments which thou dost teach them, and they have done in the land which I am giving to them to possess it. 32 `And ye have observed to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you, ye turn not aside -- right or left; 33 in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and `it is' well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.
• Deut 6:17 : 17 ye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,
• Deut 11:13 : 13 `And it hath been -- if thou hearken diligently unto My commands which I am commanding you to-day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul --
• Deut 11:22 : 22 `For, if ye diligently keep all this command which I am commanding you -- to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him,
• Deut 12:32 : 32 The whole thing which I am commanding you -- it ye observe to do; thou dost not add unto it, nor diminish from it.
• Deut 28:1-9 : 1 `And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth, 2 and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God: 3 `Blessed `art' thou in the city, and blessed `art' thou in the field. 4 `Blessed `is' the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock. 5 `Blessed `is' thy basket and thy kneading-trough. 6 `Blessed `art' thou in thy coming in, and blessed `art' thou in thy going out. 7 `Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee -- smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee. 8 `Jehovah commandeth with thee the blessing in thy storehouses, and in every putting forth of thy hand, and hath blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee. 9 `Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways; 10 and all the peoples of the land have seen that the name of Jehovah is called upon thee, and they have been afraid of thee. 11 `And Jehovah hath made thee abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee. 12 `Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure -- the heavens -- to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou -- thou dost not borrow. 13 `And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail; and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath, for thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee to-day, to keep and to do, 14 and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day -- right or left -- to go after other gods, to serve them.
• Deut 30:16 : 16 in that I am commanding thee to-day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments; and thou hast lived and multiplied, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in the land whither thou art going in to possess it.
• Josh 1:7 : 7 `Only, be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded thee; thou dost not turn aside from it right or left, so that thou dost act wisely in every `place' whither thou goest;
• Jer 7:23 : 23 But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye -- ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.
• Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days -- till the full end of the age.'
• John 14:15 : 15 `If ye love me, my commands keep,
• John 14:21 : 21 he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'
• Phil 4:8-9 : 8 As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as `are' grave, as many as `are' righteous, as many as `are' pure, as many as `are' lovely, as many as `are' of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon; 9 the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.