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Psalms 119:121 — King James Version← Study notes

I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.


Psalms 119:121Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 119:1216 words
HebrewMeaning
עָ֭שִׂיתִיʿāśiytiy
I have doneverbH6213
advance · appoint · apt · be at ···
מִשְׁפָּ֣טmišəpāṭ
justicenounH4941
adversary · charge · crime · custom ···
וָ/צֶ֑דֶקwāṣedeq
and righteousnessconjH6664
even · right (cause · -ly · -ness)
בַּלbal
notparticleH1077
neither · no · none · not ···
תַּ֝נִּיחֵ֗/נִיtaniyḥēniy
bestowverbH3240
cast down · lay (down · up) · leave ···
לְ/עֹֽשְׁקָֽ/יləʿōšəqāy
to oppressors mypronH6231
deceive · defraud · drink up · oppress ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 119:121

1. From its commencement, dearly beloved, does this great Psalm exhort us unto bliss, which there is no one who desires not....And therefore this is the lesson which he teaches, who says, “Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord” Psalm 118:1. As much as to say, I know what you wish, you are seeking bliss: if then you would be blessed, be undefiled. For the former all desire, the latter fear: yet without it what all wish cannot be…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 119 (Aleph)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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