Psalms 71:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For thou O Lorde God art the thyng that I long for: thou art my hope euen from my youth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־אַתָּ֥ה תִקְוָתִ֑י אֲדֹנָ֥י יְ֝הוִ֗ה מִבְטַחִ֥י מִנְּעוּרָֽי׃

Transliteration

For-ʾattāh tiqwātî ʾădōnāy YHWH mibṭaḥî from nəʿûrāy

Grammar Details

• *ʾattāh*: 2nd person masculine singular independent pronoun - 'you'
• *tiqwātî*: noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'my hope'
• *ʾădōnāy*: divine title - 'my Lord'
• *YHWH*: divine name, proper noun
• *mibṭaḥî*: noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'my trust/confidence'
• *nəʿûrāy*: noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'my youth'

Word Meanings

• *tiqwātî*: my hope/my expectation/my confidence
• *mibṭaḥî*: my trust/my confidence/my security
• *nəʿûrāy*: my youth/my early life/my childhood

Referenced Verses

• Jer 17:7 : 7 O blessed is the man that putteth his trust in the Lorde, and whose hope is in the Lorde hym selfe.
• Jer 17:13 : 13 Thou art the comfort of Israel, all they that forsake thee shalbe confounded, all they that do depart from thee shalbe written in earth: for they haue forsaken the Lorde the very conduite of the waters of lyfe.
• Jer 17:17 : 17 Be not thou terrible vnto me O Lord: for thou art he in whom I hope when I am in perill.
• Ps 39:7 : 7 And nowe Lord what wayte I after? truely my hope is euen in thee.
• 1 Sam 17:45-47 : 45 Then sayde Dauid to the Philistine: Thou commest to me with a sword, a speare, & a shielde: But I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hoastes, the God of the hoast of Israel, whom thou hast rayled vpon. 46 This day shal the Lorde close thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee, & take thyne head from thee, & will geue the carkases of the hoast of the Philistines this daye vnto the foules of the ayre, & to the beastes of the earth, that all they which be in the worlde, maye knowe that there is a God in Israel: 47 And all this congregation shal know that the Lorde saueth not with sword, & speare (For the battaile is ye Lordes) and he shall geue you into our handes.
• Ps 71:17 : 17 Thou O God hast taught me from my youth: and hytherto I can well declare thy wonderous workes.
• Ps 119:81 : 81 Caph My soule hath faynted after thy saluation: I geue earnest attedaunce vnto thy worde.
• Ps 119:166 : 166 Lorde, I haue wayted after thy saluation: and I haue done thy commaundementes.
• Eccl 12:1 : 1 Remember thy maker the sooner in thy youth, or euer the dayes of aduersitie come, and or the yeres drawe nye when thou shalt say, I haue not pleasure in them:
• Jer 14:8 : 8 For thou art the comfort and helpe of Israel in the tyme of trouble: Why wilt thou be as a straunger in the lande, and as one that goeth his iourney, and cometh in only to remayne for a night?
• Ps 13:5 : 5 But I repose my trust in thy mercie, and my heart is ioyfull in thy saluation:
• Ps 22:9-9 : 9 But thou art he that tokest me out of my mothers wombe: thou causedst me to trust in thee, suckyng my mothers breastes. 10 I haue ben left vnto thee euer since I was borne: thou art my God euen from my mothers wombe.
• 1 Sam 16:13 : 13 Therefore Samuel toke the horne with the annoyntment, and annoynted him in the middes of his brethren. And the spirite of the Lorde came vpon Dauid from that daye forwarde: And Samuel rose vp, and went to Rama.
• 1 Sam 17:33-37 : 33 And Saul sayde to Dauid againe: Thou art not able to go against yonder Philistine, to fight with him: For thou art but a childe, but he is a man of warre euen from his youth. 34 Dauid aunswered vnto Saul: Thy seruaunt kept his fathers sheepe, & ther came a lion and likewise a beare, and toke a sheepe, out of the flocke: 35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and toke it out of his mouth: And whe he arose against me, I caught him by the bearde, and smote him, and slue him. 36 And so thy seruaunte slue both the lion, and the beare: And trulie this vncircumcised Philistine shalbe as one of them, seing he hath rayled on the hoast of the liuyng God. 37 And Dauid spake moreouer: The Lord that deliuered me out of the hand of the lion, and out of the hande of the beare, he shal deliuer me also out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul sayd vnto Dauid: Go, and the Lorde shall be with thee.
• Ps 42:11 : 11 Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I wil yet acknowledge him to be only my present saluation, and my Lorde.
• Jer 50:7 : 7 All they that came vpon them haue deuoured them, and their enemies said, We haue made no fault agaynst them, for they haue displeased the Lorde, yea euen the Lorde which is the habitation of their righteousnesse, and the hope of their fathers.
• Luke 2:40 : 40 And the chylde grewe, and waxed strong in spirite, and was fylled with wisdome: & the grace of God was vpon hym.
• Rom 15:13 : 13 The God of hope, fyll you with al ioy and peace in beleuyng, that ye may be riche in hope, through the power of the holy ghost.
• 2 Tim 3:15 : 15 And that from an infant thou hast knowen the scriptures, which are able to make thee wyse vnto saluation, thorowe fayth which is in Christe Iesus.