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Psalms 56:4 — King James Version← Study notes

In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.


Psalms 56:4Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 56:45 words
HebrewMeaning
י֥וֹםywōm
a daynounH3117
always · chronicals · continually · daily ···
אִירָ֑אʾiyrāʾ
when I will fearverbH3372
be afraid · dread · fear(-ful · -fully ···
אֲ֝נִ֗יʾăniy
IprepH589
me · mine · myself · we ···
אֵלֶ֥י/ךָʾēleykā
to youpronH413
according to · after · against · among ···
אֶבְטָֽחʾebəṭāḥ
I will trustverbH982
secure · sure) · careless (one · woman) ···
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 56:4

1. Just as when we are going to enter into any house, we look on the title to see whose it is and to whom it belongs, lest perchance inopportunely we burst into a place whereunto we ought not; and again, in order that we may not through timidity withdraw from that which we ought to enter: as if in a word we were to read, These estates belong to such an one or to such an one: so on the lintel of this Psalm we have inscribed, “At the end, for the people that from holy men were…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 56 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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