Psalms 119:95

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me; [But] I will consider thy testimonies.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לִ֤י קִוּ֣וּ רְשָׁעִ֣ים לְאַבְּדֵ֑נִי עֵ֝דֹתֶ֗יךָ אֶתְבּוֹנָֽן׃

Transliteration

For me lî wait qiwwû the wicked rəšāʿîm to destroy me ləʾabbəḏēnî; your testimonies ʿēḏōṯêḵā I will consider ʾeṯbônān.

Grammar Details

• *lî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - for me
• *qiwwû*: piel perfect 3rd person common plural - they wait/have waited
• *rəšāʿîm*: adjective masculine plural - wicked ones
• *ləʾabbəḏēnî*: preposition + piel infinitive construct + 1st person singular suffix - to destroy me
• *ʿēḏōṯêḵā*: feminine plural construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your testimonies
• *ʾeṯbônān*: hithpael imperfect 1st person singular - I will consider/contemplate

Word Meanings

• *qiwwû*: wait/lie in wait/expect
• *rəšāʿîm*: wicked ones/evil people/the ungodly
• *ləʾabbəḏēnî*: to destroy me/to ruin me/to cause me to perish
• *ʿēḏōṯêḵā*: your testimonies/your witnesses/your covenant laws
• *ʾeṯbônān*: I will consider/I will understand/I will discern

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 23:20-23 : 20 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand. 21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have had compassion on me. 22 Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
• 2 Sam 17:1-4 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: 2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, {H3027} and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only; 3 and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace. 4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
• Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless. 9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net. 10 He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.
• Ps 27:2 : 2 When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
• Ps 37:32 : 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.
• Ps 38:12 : 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.
• Ps 119:24 : 24 Thy testimonies also are my delight [And] my counsellors.
• Ps 119:31 : 31 I cleave unto thy testimonies: O Jehovah, put me not to shame.
• Ps 119:61 : 61 The cords of the wicked have wrapped me round; [But] I have not forgotten thy law.
• Ps 119:69 : 69 The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep thy precepts.
• Ps 119:85-87 : 85 The proud have digged pits for me, Who are not according to thy law. 86 All thy commandments are faithful: They persecute me wrongfully; Help thou me. 87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; But I forsook not thy precepts.
• Ps 119:111 : 111 Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever; For they are the rejoicing of my heart.
• Ps 119:125 : 125 I am thy servant; Give me understanding, That I may know thy testimonies.
• Ps 119:129 : 129 PE. Thy testimonies are wonderful; Therefore doth my soul keep them.
• Ps 119:167 : 167 My soul hath observed thy testimonies; And I love them exceedingly.
• Matt 26:3-5 : 3 Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; 4 and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him. 5 But they said, Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among people.
• Acts 12:11 : 11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a truth, that the Lord hath sent forth his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
• Acts 23:21 : 21 {G3767} Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves under a curse, {G3739} neither to eat nor to drink till {G3739} they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.
• Acts 25:3 : 3 asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.