The Meaning of Psalms 106:41 Explained

Psalms 106:41

KJV: And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.

YLT: And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,

Darby: And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:

ASV: And he gave them into the hand of the nations; And they that hated them ruled over them.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And he gave  them into the hand  of the heathen;  and they that hated  them ruled  over them. 

What does Psalms 106:41 Mean?

Context Summary

Psalms 106:34-48 - Regarded When They Cried
Israel's conquest of Canaan did not fulfill the divine mandate. The inhabitants, whose sins had become a menace to mankind, were allowed to exist side by side with the Hebrew immigrants; and, as is often the case, the conquerors were conquered, and the invaders were contaminated by the morals of the invaded. Intermarriage poured a large admixture of alien blood into Israel, and the excesses of idolatry, even to the hideous practice of human sacrifices, became intensified by the ties of kinship and neighborhood.
The whole history of Israel is summed up as alternating cycles of sin and punishment, repentance and deliverance; and we are left wondering, first at the inveterate evil of the human heart, which learns nothing from experience, and next at the inexhaustible long-suffering of God, which, while justice strikes, yet finds some way of alleviating the smart of the stroke, Psalms 106:46. The love of God persists all through humanism and outreaches it.
The prayer of Psalms 106:47 shows that this psalm was written in exile. The psalmist hopes and believes that one result of his people's restoration will be thankfulness and the expression upon grateful lips of never-ending praise. So ends the fourth book of the Psalter.
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Chapter Summary: Psalms 106

1  The psalmist exhorts to praise God
4  He prays for pardon of sin, as God pardoned the fathers
7  The story of the people's rebellion, and God's mercy
47  He concludes with prayer and praise

What do the individual words in Psalms 106:41 mean?

And He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles and ruled over them those who hated them
וַיִּתְּנֵ֥ם בְּיַד־ גּוֹיִ֑ם וַֽיִּמְשְׁל֥וּ בָ֝הֶ֗ם שֹׂנְאֵיהֶֽם

וַיִּתְּנֵ֥ם  And  He  gave  them 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular, third person masculine plural
Root: יָתַן 
Sense: to give, put, set.
בְּיַד־  into  the  hand 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: יָד  
Sense: hand.
גּוֹיִ֑ם  of  the  Gentiles 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: גֹּוי 
Sense: nation, people.
וַֽיִּמְשְׁל֥וּ  and  ruled 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: מָשַׁל  
Sense: to rule, have dominion, reign.
בָ֝הֶ֗ם  over  them 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine plural
שֹׂנְאֵיהֶֽם  those  who  hated  them 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural construct, third person masculine plural
Root: שָׂנֵא  
Sense: to hate, be hateful.