The Meaning of Psalms 106:42 Explained

Psalms 106:42

KJV: Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

YLT: And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.

Darby: And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

ASV: Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were brought into subjection under their hand.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Psalms 106:42?

MEANING: What does Psalms 106:42 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Psalms 106:42 mean?

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What is the context of Psalms 106:42?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

What does Psalms 106:42 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 106:42 mean?

And oppressed them their enemies and they were brought into subjection under their hand

וַיִּלְחָצ֥וּם אוֹיְבֵיהֶ֑ם וַ֝יִּכָּנְע֗וּ תַּ֣חַת יָדָֽם

וַיִּלְחָצ֥וּם	And oppressed them
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural, third person masculine plural Root: לָחַץ Sense: to squeeze, press, oppress.
אוֹיְבֵיהֶ֑ם	their enemies
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural construct, third person masculine plural Root: אֹיֵב Sense: (Qal) enemy.
וַ֝יִּכָּנְע֗וּ	and they were brought into subjection
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Nifal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural Root: כָּנַע Sense: to be humble, be humbled, be subdued, be brought down, be low, be under, be brought into subjection.
תַּ֣חַת	under
Parse: Preposition Root: מִתְחָה Sense: the under part, beneath, instead of, as, for, for the sake of, flat, unto, where, whereas.
יָדָֽם	their hand
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine plural Root: יָד Sense: hand.

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