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Forכִּיfor your sakeעָלֶיךָI have borneנָשָׂאתִיreproach;חֶרְפָּהhumiliationכְלִמָּהhas coveredכִּסְּתָהmy face.פָנָי
Psalms 69:7
Study it in the app“For for your sake I have borne reproach; humiliation has covered my face.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 69:7, word by word
- I have borneנָשָׂאתִיnasati
bear
To bear the consequences of a fault, like someone carrying a weight.
Where else “nasati” appears- reproachחֶרְפָּהcherpa
disgrace, reproach
Disgrace, reproach, scorn from others. Being childless was then felt as a humiliation.
Where else “cherpa” appears- humiliationכְלִמָּהchelima
disgrace, shame
Shame, dishonor suffered before others.
Where else “chelima” appears- has coveredכִּסְּתָהkista
cover
To put something over a thing so that it can no longer be seen.
Where else “kista” appears- my faceפָנָfana
face
The front of the head, of someone or of God.
Where else “fana” appears
The context
6Let not those who wait for you be ashamed because of me, Adonai YHWH Tsevaot; let not those who seek you be humiliated because of me, Elohim of Israel.
7 · This verse (above)
8A stranger I have become to my brothers, and a foreigner to the sons of my mother.