Monday, June 26, 2023

Psalm 91 annotated

This translation is from the New American Standard Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided in blue immediately below the scriptural text.  Additional resources related to this scripture and the principles it sets out are hyperlinked after that. 

 

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust!”
For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings you may seek refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark.

You will not be afraid of the terror by night, or of the arrow that flies by day; of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.
A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not approach you.
You will only look on with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked.
For you have made the Lord, my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place.
10 No evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your tent.

11 For He will give His angels charge concerning you, to guard you in all your ways.
12 They will bear you up in their hands, that you do not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread upon the lion and cobra, the young lion and the serpent you will trample down.

14 “Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.
15 “He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
16 “With a long life I will satisfy him and let him see My salvation.”

 

dwell = יָשַׁב = yāšaḇ  Blue Letter Bible  remain, sit, abide; to sit down; to settle; continue; habitation, haunt; remain; return; stay, tarry; to be seated; to dwell

 

shelter = סֵתֶר = sēṯer  Blue Letter Bible  covering, shelter, hiding place, secret place; protection; defense  

 

abide = לוּן = lûn  Blue Letter Bible  to lodge, stop over, pass the night, abide; rest;  stay permanently; lie all night; tarry 

 

shadow = צֵל = ṣēl  Blue Letter Bible  shade, protection

 

refuge = מַחֲסֶה = maḥăsê  Blue Letter Bible  shelter; place of trust; person to whom one flees

 

fortress = מָצוּד = māṣûḏ  Blue Letter Bible  fastness, stronghold; peak, mountain castle; capture net, prey

 

trust = בָּטַח = bāṭaḥ  Blue Letter Bible  have confidence, be confident; be bold; be secure; feel safe, be careless; to trust, be confident or sure:—be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust; confide in, place one’s confidence in; to be secure, fear nothing for one’s self; persuade to trust

 

cover = סָכַךְ = sāḵaḵ Blue Letter Bible weave, interweave weave together; hedge, fence about, shut in; block, overshadow, screen; stop the approach, shut off, cover; protector; protect; cover; defence

 

takes refuge = חָסָה = ḥāsâ  Blue Letter Bible  flee for protection; to put trust in (God), confide or hope in (God); to confide in:—have hope, trust

 

made =  שׂוּם = suwm  Blue Letter Bible  make, make for, transform into, constitute, fashion, work, bring to pass, appoint, give; to put, place, set, appoint, make; ordain, establish, found, appoint, constitute, make, determine, fix; set in place, plant, fix; cast in; steadfastly; prepare; station; lay (violent) hands on; cast in; convey; heap up; set in array; to propound, explain; direct, turn; render; prepare; direct toward, pay attention to; put in position

 

refuge = מַחֲסֶה = maḥăsê  Blue Letter Bible  shelter; place of trust; person to whom one flees

 

dwelling place = מָעוֹן = māʿôn Blue Letter Bible  dwelling, habitation, refuge, lair

 

loves = חָשַׁק = ḥāšaq Blue Letter Bible  to love, attached to, long for; join; delight in; desire; cleave to; cling to 

 

known =יָדַע= yāḏaʿ  Blue Letter Bible  perceive and see, find out and discern; discriminate, distinguish; know by experience; recognize; be acquainted with; to know (a person carnally); know how, be skillful in; to have knowledge, be wise;  be made known, be or become known, be revealed; be instructed; privy to; seeing; observe with the eyes; be aware of; get to know, discover; turn the mind to, care about, see about

 

name = שֵׁם = šēm Blue Letter Bible name; reputation, fame, glory; honor, authority, character; renown, report; celebrated name; good reputation, report; fame; memory 

 

call upon קָרָא = qārā'  Blue Letter Bible to call, cry, utter a loud sound; to proclaim; to read aloud, read (to oneself); the idea of accosting a person met; address by name;call=name = give name to; to call upon or to

 

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