--- title: Psalms 42:6 — Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me? H… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him for the salvation of His countenance. Who acts: thou, I. Psalms 42:6 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.42.6/) [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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/42/) / 42:6 # Psalms 42:6 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** cast down, moan, hope, praise, salve · **To what, where:** thou, God, countenance This is Psalms 42:6 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 — thou, I — and what happens in the verse to thou, God, countenance, 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. מַה־תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י ׀ נַפְשִׁי֮ וַתֶּהֱמִ֪י עָ֫לָ֥י הוֹחִ֣ילִי לֵֽ֭אלֹהִים כִּי־ע֥וֹד אוֹדֶ֗נּוּ יְשׁוּע֥וֹת פָּנָֽיו׃ [Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.694/) [Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him for the salvation of His countenance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.695/) ## 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:642 # text = מַה־תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י ׀ נַפְשִׁי֮ וַתֶּהֱמִ֪י עָ֫לָ֥י הוֹחִ֣ילִי לֵֽ֭אלֹהִים כִּי־ע֥וֹד אוֹדֶ֗נּוּ יְשׁוּע֥וֹת פָּנָֽיו׃ # verse = PSA.42.6 1 מַה־ מָה PRON _ PronType=Int 2 advmod _ Gloss=why?|Ref=PSA_42:6!1|MId=o190420060011|Strong=4100|Type=interrogative|SpaceAfter=No 2 תִּשְׁתּ֬וֹחֲחִ֨י שׁיח VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=HITHPOLEL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=are.you.bowed.down|Ref=PSA_42:6!2|MId=o190420060021|Strong=7817a|Frame=A0:190420060031;|Type=yiqtol 3 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ Ref=PSA_42:6!2 4-5 נַפְשִׁי֮ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 נַפְשׁ נֶפֶשׁ NOUN _ Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Gloss=my.soul|Ref=PSA_42:6!3|MId=o190420060031|Strong=5315 5 ִי֮ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ Gloss=my|Ref=PSA_42:6!3|MId=o190420060032|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 6-7 וַתֶּהֱמִ֪י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 וַ וְ CCONJ _ _ 7 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_42:6!4|MId=o190420060041|Strong=2050b 7 תֶּהֱמִ֪י הָמָה VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 conj _ Gloss=were.you.in.turmoil?|Ref=PSA_42:6!4|MId=o190420060042|Strong=1993|Frame=A0:190420060031;|Type=wayyiqtol 8-9 עָ֫לָ֥י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 עָ֫ל עַל ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=on|Ref=PSA_42:6!5|MId=o190420060051|Strong=5921 9 ָ֥י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=PSA_42:6!5|MId=o190420060052|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 10 הוֹחִ֣ילִי יָחַל VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2 2 parataxis _ Gloss=wait|Ref=PSA_42:6!6|MId=o190420060061|Strong=3176|Frame=A0:190420060031;|Type=imperative 11-12 לֵֽ֭אלֹהִים _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 11 לֵֽ֭ לְ ADP _ _ 12 case _ Gloss=for|Ref=PSA_42:6!7|MId=o190420060071|Strong=3807a 12 אלֹהִים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 10 obl _ Gloss=God|Ref=PSA_42:6!7|MId=o190420060072|Strong=0430 13 כִּי־ כִּי SCONJ _ _ 15 mark _ Gloss=(dm)|Ref=PSA_42:6!8|MId=o190420060081|Strong=3588|SpaceAfter=No 14 ע֥וֹד עוֹד ADV _ _ 15 advmod _ Gloss=again|Ref=PSA_42:6!9|MId=o190420060091|Strong=5750 15-16 אוֹדֶ֗נּוּ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 אוֹד יָדָה VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=1 2 advcl _ Gloss=I|Ref=PSA_42:6!10|MId=o190420060101|Strong=3034|Frame=AA:190420010032;A0:190420060102;|Type=yiqtol 16 ֶ֗נּוּ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ Gloss=will.give.thanks.to.him|Ref=PSA_42:6!10|MId=o190420060102|Strong=5105b|Type=pronominal 17 יְשׁוּע֥וֹת יְשׁוּעָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Plur 15 obl _ Gloss=the.salvation(s)|Ref=PSA_42:6!11|MId=o190420060111|Strong=3444 18-19 פָּנָֽיו _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 פָּנָֽי פָּנֶה NOUN _ Number=Plur 17 compound:smixut _ Gloss=his.presence|Ref=PSA_42:6!12|MId=o190420060121|Strong=6440 19 ו הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ Gloss=his|Ref=PSA_42:6!12|MId=o190420060122|Strong=2050c|Type=pronominal 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=PSA_42:6!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: no - indirect: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | תִּשְׁתּוֹחֲחִי *are you bowed down* | yiqtol · hithpolel | נַפְשׁ *my soul* | | | | | תֶּהֱמִי *were you in turmoil?* | wayyiqtol · qal | נַפְשׁ *my soul* | | | | | הוֹחִילִי *wait* | imperative · hiphil | נַפְשׁ *my soul* | | | | | אוֹד *I* | yiqtol · hiphil | ֶנּוּ *will give thanks to him* | | | | 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} מַה תִתְמַכְּכִין נַפְשִׁי וְתִרְגְשִׁי עֲלַי אוֹרִיכִי לֵאלָהָא אֲרוּם תּוּב אֲשַׁבְּחִנֵיהּ בְּפוּרְקָנָא דְמִן קֳדָמוֹי: 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. [Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why moanest thou within me?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.694/) 2. [Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him for the salvation of His countenance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.695/) **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). Hebrew sentence `wlc:PSA:642`. - ← previous: [Psalms 42:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.42.5/) - next →: [Psalms 42:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.42.7/) - ↑ back to [Psalms 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/42/)