Psalms 94:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יָ֭גוֹדּוּ עַל־נֶ֣פֶשׁ צַדִּ֑יק וְדָ֖ם נָקִ֣י יַרְשִֽׁיעוּ

Transliteration

yāgôddû upon-nepeš ṣaddîq wə-dām nāqî yaršîʿû

Grammar Details

• *yāgôddû*: verb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural - they attack/gather against
• *ʿal-nepeš*: preposition + noun, feminine, singular, construct - upon soul of
• *ṣaddîq*: adjective, masculine, singular - righteous one
• *wə-dām*: conjunction + noun, masculine, singular - and blood of
• *nāqî*: adjective, masculine, singular - innocent
• *yaršîʿû*: verb, hiphil, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural - they condemn

Word Meanings

• *yāgôddû*: attack/gather against/band together against
• *nepeš*: soul/life
• *ṣaddîq*: righteous one/just one
• *dām*: blood/lifeblood
• *nāqî*: innocent/blameless
• *yaršîʿû*: condemn/pronounce guilty/declare wicked

Referenced Verses

• Prov 17:15 : 15 Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these `are' an abomination to Jehovah.
• Exod 23:7 : 7 from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.
• Ps 59:3 : 3 For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.
• Matt 27:1 : 1 And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death;
• Matt 27:4 : 4 `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What -- to us? thou shalt see!'
• Acts 4:5-7 : 5 And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem, 6 and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest, 7 and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'
• Acts 4:27-28 : 27 for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.
• Acts 7:52 : 52 which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,
• Acts 7:58-60 : 58 and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning `him' -- and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul -- 59 and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, `Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;' 60 and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.
• Jas 5:6 : 6 ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.
• Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder;
• Ps 106:38 : 38 And they shed innocent blood -- Blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they have sacrificed to idols of Canaan, And the land is profaned with blood.
• Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
• Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
• 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Hast thou murdered, and also possessed? and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.'
• Ps 2:1-3 : 1 Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity? 2 Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah: 3 `Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'
• Ps 22:16 : 16 And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.
• Ps 56:6 : 6 They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.
• Jer 26:15 : 15 Only, know ye certainly, that if ye are putting me to death, surely innocent blood ye are putting on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly hath Jehovah sent me unto you to speak in your ears all these words.'
• Ezek 22:6 : 6 Lo, princes of Israel -- each according to his arm Have been in thee to shed blood.
• Ezek 22:12 : 12 A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!
• Ezek 22:27 : 27 Its princes in its midst `are' as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.
• Matt 23:32-36 : 32 and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers. 33 `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna? 34 `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: 36 verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.