Psalms 119:80

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

May I be fully committed to your statutes, so that I might not be ashamed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהִֽי־לִבִּ֣י תָמִ֣ים בְּחֻקֶּ֑יךָ לְ֝מַ֗עַן לֹ֣א אֵבֽוֹשׁ׃

Transliteration

Let be yəhî my heart libbî blameless ṯāmîm in your statutes bəḥuqqêḵā; so that ləmaʿan not lōʾ I am put to shame ʾēḇôš.

Grammar Details

• *yəhî*: qal jussive 3rd person masculine singular - let be/may it be
• *libbî*: noun masculine singular construct + 1st person singular suffix - my heart
• *ṯāmîm*: adjective masculine singular - blameless/complete
• *bəḥuqqêḵā*: preposition + masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - in your statutes
• *ləmaʿan*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ʾēḇôš*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I am put to shame

Word Meanings

• *yəhî*: let be/may be/become
• *libbî*: my heart/my mind/my inner self
• *ṯāmîm*: blameless/perfect/complete/sound
• *ḥuqqêḵā*: your statutes/your decrees/your prescribed laws
• *ləmaʿan*: so that/in order that/for the purpose that
• *ʾēḇôš*: I am put to shame/I am disgraced/I am disappointed

Referenced Verses

• Deut 26:16 : 16 Narrative Interlude Today the LORD your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.
• 2 Chr 12:14 : 14 He did evil because he was not determined to follow the LORD.
• 2 Chr 15:17 : 17 The high places were not eliminated from Israel, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.
• 2 Chr 25:2 : 2 He did what the LORD approved, but not with wholehearted devotion.
• 2 Chr 31:20-21 : 20 This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the LORD his God considered good and right and faithful. 21 He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.
• Ps 25:2-3 : 2 My God, I trust in you. Please do not let me be humiliated; do not let my enemies triumphantly rejoice over me! 3 Certainly none who rely on you will be humiliated. Those who deal in treachery will be thwarted and humiliated.
• Ps 25:21 : 21 May integrity and godliness protect me, for I rely on you!
• Ps 32:2 : 2 How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the LORD does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
• Ps 119:6 : 6 Then I would not be ashamed, if I were focused on all your commands.
• Prov 4:23 : 23 Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
• Ezek 11:9 : 9 ‘But I will take you out of the city. And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.
• John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed,“Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 Paul Defends His Changed Plans For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God– not by human wisdom but by the grace of God– we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
• 1 John 2:28 : 28 Children of God And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.