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Psalms 37:14 — King James Version← Study notes

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.


Psalms 37:14Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 37:1411 words
HebrewMeaning
חֶ֤רֶבḥereb
a swordnounH2719
dagger · knife · mattock · sword ···
פָּֽתְח֣וּpātəḥw
they have drawnverbH6605
break forth · draw · let go free · grave ···
רְשָׁעִים֮rəšāʿiym
wicked peopleadjH7563
condemned · ungodly · wicked · that did wrong
וְ/דָרְכ֪וּwədārəkw
and they have bentconjH1869
bend · come · draw · go ···
קַ֫שְׁתָּ֥/םqašətām
bow theirnounH7198
arch · arrow · -shot)
לְ֭/הַפִּילləhapiyl
to make fallpronH5307
cast (down · self · out) · cease ···
עָנִ֣יʿāniy
the pooradjH6041
humble · lowly · needy · poor
וְ/אֶבְי֑וֹןwəʾebəywōn
and the needyconjH34
needy · poor
לִ֝/טְב֗וֹחַliṭəbwōḥa
to slaughterpronH2873
slaughter · slay
יִשְׁרֵיyišərēy
people upright ofadjH3477
equity · Jasher · just · meet ···
דָֽרֶךְdārekə
waynounH1870
away · because of · by · conversation ···
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 37:14

On the first part of the psalm. 1. With terror do they hear of the coming of the last day, who will not be secure by living well: and who fain would live ill, long. But it was for useful purposes that God willed that day to remain unknown; that the heart may be ever ready to expect that of which it knows it is to come, but knows not when it is to come. Seeing, however, that our Lord Jesus Christ was sent to us to be our “Master,” He said, that “of the day not even the Son of…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 37 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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