PSA 119

Psalm 119:106

WEB

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

BSB

I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

KJV

I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

Matthew Henry

Verse 106

Psalms 119:106

Here is, 1. The notion David had of religion; it is keeping God's righteous judgments. God's commands are his judgments, the dictates of infinite wisdom. They are righteous judgments, consonant to the eternal rules of equity, and it is our duty to keep them carefully. 2. The obligation he here laid upon himself to be religious, binding himself, by his own promise, to that which he was already bound to by the divine precept, and all little enough. "I have sworn (I have lifted up my head to the Lord, and I cannot go back) and therefore must go forward: I will perform it." Note, (1.) It is good for us to bind ourselves with a solemn oath to be religious. We must swear to the Lord as subjects swear allegiance to their sovereign, promising fealty, appealing to God concerning our sincerity in this promise, and owning ourselves liable to the curse of we do not perform it. (2.) We must often call to mind the vows of God that are upon us, and remember that we have sworn. (3.) We must make conscience of performing unto the Lord our oaths (an honest man will be as good as his word); nor have we sworn to our own hurt, but it will be unspeakably to our hurt if we do not perform.

Hebrew interlinear

H7650

שָׁבַעshâbaʻ/shaw-bah'/

v — seven, swear

Derivation: a primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from 7651;

to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

KJV: adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for 7646), take an oath, × straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.

שָׁבַע

vb — swear

[שָׁבַע] 186 vb. swear (prob. so to say, seven oneself, or bind oneself by seven things)

Qal Pt. pass. those sworn with (= who have sworn) oaths

Niph.;—swear, take an oath

Hiph.

1. cause take an oath, subj. always man

2. adjure

H6965

קוּםqûwm/koom/

v — rise

Derivation: a primitive root;

to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)

KJV: abide, accomplish, × be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, × be dim, endure, × enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, × but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-) rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-) stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, -rising).

לֵב קָמָי

Leb Qamay

לֵב קָמָי prob. late Atbash Je 51:1.

קוּם

vb — arise

קוּם 628 vb. arise, stand up, stand

Qal 460

1. arise

2. arise, in hostile sense (oft. with idea of suddenness)

3. arise, abs., = become powerful

4. arise = come on the scene, appear, of leader, prophet

5. arise for, i.e. to become

6.

a. arise for action

b. arise (out of inaction), introducing some specific deed

c. esp. arise = start, make a move, to go somewhere

7. stand

Pi.

1. fulfil

2.

a. confirm, ratify

b. confirm, establish

c. impose, an obligation

Pō‛l. raise up

Hithpō‛l. raise oneself, = rise up

Hiph. 146

1. cause to arise, raise

2.

a. raise, set up, stones

b. erect, build

c. fig, of setting up law

3. raise up = bring on the scene

4.

a. raise up = rouse, stir up

b. instigate, build

c. fig, of setting up law

5. raise up = constitute

6. cause to stand

Hoph. be raised up

H8104

שָׁמַרshâmar/shaw-mar'/

v — hedge, guard, protect, attend to

Derivation: a primitive root;

properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.

KJV: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).

שָׁמַר

vb — keep

שָׁמַר 465 vb. keep, watch, preserve

Qal 425

1.

a. keep, have charge of

b. keep, guard, captives

c. hence, watch for, wait for

d. watch, observe

2.

a. keep, retain, of storing up (food)

b. keep within bounds, restrain

3.

a. observe, celebrate

b. keep sabbath

c. of other obligations

d. observe = follow dictates of (prudence, justice, kindness, wisdom)

4. sts. י׳ subj.

5. keep, reserve, weeks of harvest

Niph. 36

1. be on one's guard

2. keep oneself, refrain, abstain

3. be kept, guarded

Pi. those paying regard to false vanities

Hithp. I kept myself from

H4941

מִשְׁפָּטmishpâṭ/mish-pawt'/

n-m — verdict, sentence, law, justice, right, privilege, style

Derivation: from 8199;

properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style

KJV: adversary, ceremony, charge, × crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, × worthy, wrong.

מִשְׁפָּט

n.m — judgment

מִשְׁפָּט 422 n.m. judgment

1. judgment

2. justice, right, rectitude

3. ordinance

4. decision

5. one's (legal) right, privilege, due

6.

a. proper, fitting, measure

b. custom, manner

c. what manner of

d. plan

H6664

צֶדֶקtsedeq/tseh'-dek/

n-m — right, equity, prosperity

Derivation: from 6663;

the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity

KJV: × even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness).

צֶ֫דֶק

n.m — rightness

צֶ֫דֶק n.m. rightness, righteousness

1. what is right, just, normal; rightness, justness, of weights and measures

2. righteousness, in government

3. righteousness, justice, in a case or cause

4. rightness, in speech

5. righteousness, as ethically right

6. righteousness, as vindicated, justification in controversy with enemies and troubles, deliverance, victory, prosperity

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