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Psalms 55:10 — King James Version← Study notes

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.


Psalms 55:10Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 55:109 words
HebrewMeaning
בַּלַּ֣עbalaʿ
confuseverbH1104
destroy · devour · eat up · be at end ···
אֲ֭דֹנָ/יʾădōnāy
O LordnounH136
פַּלַּ֣גpalag
divideverbH6385
לְשׁוֹנָ֑/םləšwōnām
tongue theirnounH3956
babbler · evil speaker · language · talker ···
כִּֽיkiy
forconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
רָאִ֨יתִיrāʾiytiy
I have seenverbH7200
appear · approve · behold · certainly ···
חָמָ֖סḥāmās
violencenounH2555
damage · false · injustice · oppressor ···
וְ/רִ֣יבwəriyb
and strifeconjH7379
adversary · chiding · contend · controversy ···
בָּ/עִֽירbāʿiyr
in the citypronH5892
city · court · town
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 55:10

1. Of this Psalm the title is: “At the end, in hymns, understanding to David himself.” What the “end” is, we will briefly call to your recollection, because you have known it. “For the end of the Law is Christ, for righteousness unto every man believing.” Romans 10:4 Be the attention therefore directed unto the End, directed unto Christ. Wherefore is He called the end? Because whatever we do, to Him we refer it, and when to Him we shall have come home, more to ask we shall…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 55 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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