--- title: Psalms 118:4 — So let them now that fear the LORD say, for His mercy endureth for e… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: So let them now that fear the LORD say, for His mercy endureth for ever. Who acts: you, them, mercy. Psalms 118:4 in Hebrew with its dependency tree, the Targum, JPS 1917 and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.118.4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Ketuvim](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/) / [Psalms](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/) / [chapter 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/118/) / 118:4 # Psalms 118:4 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** you, them, mercy · **What happens:** let, fear, say, endure · **To what, where:** them, LORD · **Speech:** someone speaks in this verse This is Psalms 118:4 from Mova's open Bible corpus, the Tanakh in three languages (Ketuvim — the Writings). The page gives the verse in Hebrew as the Westminster Leningrad Codex has it, its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, built from MACULA Hebrew — and its pragmatics: who acts — you, them, mercy — and what happens in the verse to them, LORD, read clause by clause by Mova's frames. Beside it stand the Aramaic of the Targum and the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, each English sentence with a tree of its own. It is one of the 150 chapters of Psalms on this site, all built by Mova itself from its own trees, with no large model in between. יֹֽאמְרוּ־נָ֭א יִרְאֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃ [So let them now that fear the LORD say, for His mercy endureth for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2136/) ## The tree {#tree} Right to left, as the Hebrew is read; a prefix or suffix is a word of its own, and a line under the words joins those written as one. Under each word its part of speech and MACULA's English gloss. ```conllu rtl gloss # sent_id = wlc:PSA:1997 # text = יֹֽאמְרוּ־נָ֭א יִרְאֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃ # verse = PSA.118.4 1 יֹֽאמְרוּ־ אָמַר VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=let.them.say|Ref=PSA_118:4!1|MId=o191180040011|Strong=0559|Frame=A0:191180040031;A1:191180040062;|Type=jussive|SpaceAfter=No 2 נָ֭א נָא INTJ _ _ 1 discourse _ Gloss=please|Ref=PSA_118:4!2|MId=o191180040021|Strong=4994|Type=exhortation 3 יִרְאֵ֣י יָרֵא ADJ _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 1 nsubj _ Gloss=[those].fearing|Ref=PSA_118:4!3|MId=o191180040031|Strong=3373|Type=adjective 4 יְהוָ֑ה יהוה PROPN _ _ 3 compound:smixut _ Gloss=(of).Yahweh|Ref=PSA_118:4!4|MId=o191180040041|Strong=3068 5 כִּ֖י כִּי SCONJ _ _ 7 mark _ Gloss=(dm).that|Ref=PSA_118:4!5|MId=o191180040051|Strong=3588 6-7 לְעוֹלָ֣ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 לְ לְ ADP _ _ 7 case _ Gloss=[is]|Ref=PSA_118:4!6|MId=o191180040061|Strong=3807a 7 עוֹלָ֣ם עוֹלָם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 1 ccomp _ Gloss=forever|Ref=PSA_118:4!6|MId=o191180040062|Strong=5769 8-9 חַסְדּֽוֹ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 חַסְדּ חֶסֶד NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Gloss=loyalty|Ref=PSA_118:4!7|MId=o191180040071|Strong=2617 9 ֽוֹ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his.covenant|Ref=PSA_118:4!7|MId=o191180040072|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 10 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 9 punct _ Ref=PSA_118:4!7 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - speech: a frame and its quote - negation: no - the frame alone: decl · assert · none | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | יֹֽאמְרוּ־ *let them say* | jussive · qal | יִרְאֵי *\[those\] fearing* | עוֹלָם *forever* | | | MACULA's semantic frames: for each verb the head word of each participant. A0 is the one who acts, A1 what the act is done to or is about, A2 a further participant; AA, with a causative verb, the one who makes it happen. ## The Targum {#onkelos} יֵימְרוּן כְּדוּן דַחֲלַיָא דַייָ אֲרוּם לַעֲלַם טוּבֵיהּ: The Aramaic translation read beside the Hebrew. Text only: Mova has no Aramaic parser yet. ## English, JPS 1917 {#english} Each sentence on its own page, with its tree and pragmatics. A sentence that runs on into the next verse is listed under the verse it begins in. 1. [So let them now that fear the LORD say, for His mercy endureth for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2136/) **Hebrew text:** Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. **Tree, glosses and frames:** MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at [github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew](https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); converted to Universal Dependencies by Mova (words in text order, a prefix its own word). **Speech act:** Mova's rules on the MACULA words (`macula prag`). **Targum:** Onkelos (Torat Emet), Jonathan and the Writings (Mikraot Gedolot), from Sefaria, public domain. **English:** JPS 1917, public domain; trees and speech acts by Mova's cycle, frames by Mova's reader (Elamur Cosmic License). 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