“Then hear” | תִּשְׁמַ֣ע | To hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.) | Then hear |
“thou” | וְאַתָּ֣ה׀ | Thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you | thou |
“from” | מִן | Properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses | from |
“heaven,” | הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם | The sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve) | heaven |
“and do,” | וְעָשִׂ֙יתָ֙ | To do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application | do |
“and judge” | וְשָֽׁפַטְתָּ֣ | To judge, i.e., pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literally or figuratively) | judge |
“thy servants,” | עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ | A servant | servants |
“by requiting” | לְהָשִׁ֣יב | To turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again | requiting |
“the wicked,” | לְרָשָׁ֔ע | Morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person | wicked |
“by recompensing” | לָתֵ֥ת | To give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.) | recompensing |
“his way” | דַּרְכּ֖וֹ | A road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb | way |
“upon his own head;” | בְּרֹאשׁ֑וֹ | The head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.) | upon own head |
“and by justifying” | וּלְהַצְדִּ֣יק | To be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense) | justifying |
“the righteous,” | צַדִּ֔יק | Just | righteous |
“by giving” | לָ֥תֶת | To give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.) | giving |
“him according to his righteousness.” | כְּצִדְקָתֽוֹ׃ | Rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity) | according righteousness |