Psalms 65:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. A Song. To Thee, silence -- praise, O God, `is' in Zion, And to Thee is a vow completed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ מִזְמ֗וֹר לְדָוִ֥ד שִֽׁיר

Transliteration

To-the-mənaṣṣēaḥ mizmôr to-dāwid šîr

Grammar Details

• *mənaṣṣēaḥ*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition lamed (to/for) - director/chief musician
• *mizmôr*: noun, masculine singular - psalm/song
• *dāwid*: proper noun with prefixed preposition lamed (to/for) - David
• *šîr*: noun, masculine singular - song

Word Meanings

• *mənaṣṣēaḥ*: chief musician/choir director/overseer
• *mizmôr*: psalm/melody/musical composition
• *šîr*: song/hymn/musical piece

Referenced Verses

• Ps 62:1 : 1 To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. Only -- toward God `is' my soul silent, From Him `is' my salvation.
• Ps 76:11 : 11 Vow and complete to Jehovah your God, All ye surrounding him. They bring presents to the Fearful One.
• Ps 116:17-18 : 17 To Thee I sacrifice a sacrifice of thanks, And in the name of Jehovah I call. 18 My vows to Jehovah let me complete, I pray you, before all His people,
• Ps 78:68-69 : 68 And He chooseth the tribe of Judah, With mount Zion that He loved, 69 And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.
• Ps 76:2 : 2 And His tabernacle is in Salem, And His habitation in Zion.
• 1 Chr 11:7 : 7 And David dwelleth in the fortress, therefore they have called it, `City of David;'
• 1 Chr 15:29 : 29 and it cometh to pass, the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is entering in unto the city of David, and Michal daughter of Saul is looking through the window, and seeth king David dancing and playing, and despiseth him in her heart.
• 1 Chr 16:41-42 : 41 And with them `are' Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen, who were defined by name, to give thanks to Jehovah, for to the age `is' His kindness, 42 and with them -- Heman and Jeduthun -- `are' trumpets and cymbals for those sounding, and instruments of the song of God, and the sons of Jeduthun `are' at the gate.
• 1 Chr 25:1-9 : 1 And David and the heads of the host separate for service, of the sons of Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun, who are prophesying with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals, and the number of the workmen is according to their service. 2 Of sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, `are' by the side of Asaph, who is prophesying by the side of the king. 3 Of Jeduthun: sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, Shisshah, `are' by the side of their father Jeduthun; with a harp he is prophesying, for giving of thanks and of praise to Jehovah. 4 Of Heman: sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth; 5 all these `are' sons of Heman -- seer of the king in the things of God -- to lift up a horn; and God giveth to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 6 All these `are' by the side of their father in the song of the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; by the side of the king `are' Asaph, and Jeduthun, and Heman. 7 And their number, with their brethren -- taught in the song of Jehovah, all who are intelligent -- is two hundred, eighty and eight. 8 And they cause to fall lots -- charge over-against `charge', as well the small as the great, the intelligent with the learner. 9 And the first lot goeth out for Asaph to Joseph; `to' Gedaliah the second; he, and his brethren and his sons, twelve; 10 the third `to' Zaccur, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 11 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 12 the fifth `to' Nethaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 13 the sixth `to' Bukkiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 14 the seventh `to' Jesharelah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 15 the eighth `to' Jeshaiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 16 the ninth `to' Mattaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 17 the tenth `to' Shimei, his sons and his brethren, twelve: 18 eleventh `to' Azareel, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 19 the twelfth `to' Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 20 at the thirteenth `to' Shubael, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 21 at the fourteenth `to' Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 22 at the fifteenth `to' Jeremoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 23 at the sixteenth `to' Hananiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 24 at the seventeenth `to' Joshbekashah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 25 at the eighteenth `to' Hanani, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 26 at the nineteenth `to' Mallothi, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 27 at the twentieth `to' Eliathah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 28 at the one and twentieth `to' Hothir, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 29 at the two and twentieth `to' Giddalti, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 30 at the three and twentieth `to' Mahazioth, his sons and his brethren, twelve; 31 at the four and twentieth `to' Romamti-Ezer, his sons and his brethren, twelve.
• Ps 21:13 : 13 Be Thou exalted, O Jehovah in, Thy strength, We sing and we praise Thy might!
• Ps 56:12 : 12 On me, O God, `are' Thy vows, I repay thank-offerings to Thee.
• Ps 115:1-2 : 1 Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, But to Thy name give honour, For Thy kindness, for Thy truth. 2 Why do the nations say, `Where, pray, `is' their God.
• Rev 14:1-3 : 1 And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads; 2 and I heard a voice out of the heaven, as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder, and a voice I heard of harpers harping with their harps, 3 and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousands, who have been bought from the earth;