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Psalms 39:11 — King James Version← Study notes

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.


Psalms 39:11Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 39:117 words
HebrewMeaning
הָסֵ֣רhāsēr
removeverbH5493
bring · call back · decline · depart ···
מֵ/עָלַ֣/יmēʿālay
from on mepronH5921
according to · after · against · among ···
נִגְעֶ֑/ךָnigəʿekā
plague yournounH5061
sore · stricken · stripe · stroke ···
מִ/תִּגְרַ֥תmitigərat
from the hostility ofpronH8409
יָ֝דְ/ךָ֗yādəkā
hand yournounH3027
about · armholes · at · axletree ···
אֲנִ֣יʾăniy
IprepH589
me · mine · myself · we ···
כָלִֽיתִיkāliytiy
I have come to an endverbH3615
cease · consume · determine · destroy ···
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 39:11

1. The title of this Psalm, which we have just chanted and proposed to discuss, is, “On the end, for Idithun, a Psalm for David himself.” Here then we must look for, and must attend to, the words of a certain person who is called Idithun; and if each one of ourselves may be Idithun, in that which he sings he recognises himself, and hears himself speak. For you may see who was called Idithun, according to the ancient descent of man; let us, however, understand what this name…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 39 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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