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Psalms 56:6 — King James Version← Study notes

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.


Psalms 56:6Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 56:68 words
HebrewMeaning
כָּלkāl
allnounH3605
) · altogether · any · enough ···
הַ֭/יּוֹםhaywōm
the dayparticleH3117
always · chronicals · continually · daily ···
דְּבָרַ֣/יdəbāray
words mynounH1697
advice · affair · answer · any such ···
יְעַצֵּ֑בוּyəʿaṣēbw
they twistverbH6087
grieve · hurt · make · be sorry ···
עָלַ֖/יʿālay
are on mepronH5921
according to · after · against · among ···
כָּלkāl
allnounH3605
) · altogether · any · enough ···
מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֣/םmaḥəšəbōtām
plans theirnounH4284
curious work · device · imagination · invented ···
לָ/רָֽעlārāʿ
for evilpronH7451
affliction · bad · calamity · displease ···
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 56:6

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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