Study it in the app“With my soul I have longed for you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I seek you early, for when your judgments are on the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.”
With my soulנַפְשִׁיI have longed for youאִוִּיתִיךָin the night;בַּלַּיְלָהyes,אַףwith my spiritרוּחִיwithin meבְקִרְבִּיI seek you early,אֲשַׁחֲרֶךָּforכִּיwhenכַּאֲשֶׁרyour judgments areמִשְׁפָּטֶיךָon the earth,לָאָרֶץthe inhabitantsיֹשְׁבֵיof the worldתֵבֵלlearnלָמְדוּrighteousness.צֶדֶק
soul
A person's innermost self: what they feel and desire.
Where else “nafshi” appearscrave, desire
Desire strongly, crave something.
Where else “iviti” appearsnight
Night.
Where else “layla” appearsspirit
What moves a person inside: their life, their mood.
Where else “ruchi” appearsinside
One's inner part, one's inmost self.
Where else “kirbi” appearsseek early, seek diligently
To seek earnestly, from early on. It comes from the word "dawn": to rise early to look for something.
Where else “ashachare” appearsjudgment
The decision a judge gives on a case.
Where else “mishpate” appearsearth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshve” appearsworld
The world: the inhabited earth.
Where else “tevel” appearslearn
To receive teaching until one knows or masters it.
Where else “lamdu” appearsrighteousness
Living uprightly before God.
Where else “tsedek” appears8Yes, in the path of your judgments, YHWH, we have waited for you; to your name and to your remembrance is the desire of our soul.
9 · This verse (above)
10Though the wicked is shown favor, he does not learn righteousness; in a land of uprightness he acts perversely, and does not see the loftiness of YHWH.
