KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Psalm 17:2 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.”
What does this verse really mean? Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew Scripture. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. Follow the buttons in the right-hand column for detailed definitions and verses that use the same root words. Use this reference information to gain deeper insight into the Bible and enrich your understanding. Information based on Strong's Exhaustive Concordance[1].
| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “Let my sentence” | מִשְׁפָּטִ֣י | 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 | Let sentence |
| “come forth” | יֵצֵ֑א | To go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim | come forth |
| “from thy presence;” | מִ֭לְּפָנֶיךָ | The face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.) | presence |
| “let thine eyes” | עֵ֝ינֶ֗יךָ | An eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape) | let thine eyes |
| “behold” | תֶּחֱזֶ֥ינָה | To gaze at; mentally to perceive, contemplate (with pleasure); specifically, to have a vision of | behold |
| “the things that are equal.” | מֵישָׁרִֽים׃ | Evenness, i.e., (figuratively) prosperity or concord; also straightness, i.e., (figuratively) rectitude (only in plural with singular sense; often adverbially) | things are equal |
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1 Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
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