Psalm 63:9
Strong's Lexicon
But those
וְהֵ֗מָּה (wə·hêm·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1992: 1) they, these, the same, who

who seek
יְבַקְשׁ֣וּ (yə·ḇaq·šū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1245: 1) to seek, require, desire, exact, request 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to seek to find 1a2) to seek to secure 1a3) to seek the face 1a4) to desire, demand 1a5) to require, exact 1a6) to ask, request 1b) (Pual) to be sought

my life
נַפְשִׁ֑י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5315: 1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion 1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man 1b) living being 1c) living being (with life in the blood) 1d) the man himself, self, person or individual 1e) seat of the appetites 1f) seat of emotions and passions 1g) activity of mind 1g1) dubious 1h) activity of the will 1h1) dubious 1i) activity of the character 1i1) dubious

to destroy it
לְ֭שׁוֹאָה (lə·šō·w·’āh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7722: n m 1) ravage n f 2) devastation, ruin, waste 2a) devastation, ruin 2b) ruin, waste (of land)

will go
יָ֝בֹ֗אוּ (yā·ḇō·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 935: 1) to go in, enter, come, go, come in 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to enter, come in 1a2) to come 1a2a) to come with 1a2b) to come upon, fall or light upon, attack (enemy) 1a2c) to come to pass 1a3) to attain to 1a4) to be enumerated 1a5) to go 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to lead in 1b2) to carry in 1b3) to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring against, bring upon 1b4) to bring to pass 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be brought, brought in 1c2) to be introduced, be put

into the depths
בְּֽתַחְתִּיּ֥וֹת (bə·ṯaḥ·tî·yō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 8482: 1) low, lower, lowest 1a) lowest (as adj) 1b) the lower parts (subst)

of the earth.
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: 1) land, earth 1a) earth 1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part) 1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven) 1a3) earth (inhabitants) 1b) land 1b1) country, territory 1b2) district, region 1b3) tribal territory 1b4) piece of ground 1b5) land of Canaan, Israel 1b6) inhabitants of land 1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under) world 1b8) city (-state) 1c) ground, surface of the earth 1c1) ground 1c2) soil 1d) (in phrases) 1d1) people of the land 1d2) space or distance of country (in measurements of distance) 1d3) level or plain country 1d4) land of the living 1d5) end(s) of the earth 1e) (almost wholly late in usage) 1e1) lands, countries 1e1a) often in contrast to Canaan

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
And they who for desolation seek my soul, Go in to the lower parts of the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But those who seek to destroy my life will go into the depths of the earth.

New American Standard Bible
But those who seek my life to destroy it, Will go into the depths of the earth.

King James Bible
But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth.

New Living Translation
But those plotting to destroy me will come to ruin. They will go down into the depths of the earth.

English Standard Version
But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;

New American Standard Bible
But those who seek my life to destroy it, Will go into the depths of the earth.

King James Bible
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But those who seek to destroy my life will go into the depths of the earth.

International Standard Version
But as for those who seek to destroy me, they will go down to the depths of the earth;

NET Bible
Enemies seek to destroy my life, but they will descend into the depths of the earth.

American Standard Version
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

English Revised Version
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
And they who for desolation seek my soul, Go in to the lower parts of the earth.
















Cross References
Psalm 40:14
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Psalm 54:3
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Psalm 55:15
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Psalm 139:15
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Ezekiel 31:14
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 63:8
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

Psalm 63:7
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

Psalm 63:6
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Psalm 63:10
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

Psalm 63:11
But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
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