--- title: Psalms 55:24 — But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit; men o… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit; men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days; but as for me, I will trust in Thee. Who acts: Thou, men, I. Psalms 55:24 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.55.24/) [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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/55/) / 55:24 # Psalms 55:24 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** Thou, men, I · **What happens:** bring down, not live out, trust · **To what, where:** words, nethermost pit, Thee This is Psalms 55:24 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, men, I — and what happens in the verse to words, nethermost pit, Thee, 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. וְאַתָּ֤ה אֱלֹהִ֨ים ׀ תּוֹרִדֵ֬ם ׀ לִבְאֵ֬ר שַׁ֗חַת אַנְשֵׁ֤י דָמִ֣ים וּ֭מִרְמָה לֹא־יֶחֱצ֣וּ יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וַ֝אֲנִ֗י אֶבְטַח־בָּֽךְ׃ [But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit; men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days; but as for me, I will trust in Thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.915/) ## 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:851 # text = וְאַתָּ֤ה אֱלֹהִ֨ים ׀ תּוֹרִדֵ֬ם ׀ לִבְאֵ֬ר שַׁ֗חַת אַנְשֵׁ֤י דָמִ֣ים וּ֭מִרְמָה לֹא־יֶחֱצ֣וּ יְמֵיהֶ֑ם וַ֝אֲנִ֗י אֶבְטַח־בָּֽךְ׃ # verse = PSA.55.24 1-2 וְאַתָּ֤ה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 5 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_55:24!1|MId=o190550240011|Strong=2050b 2 אַתָּ֤ה אַתָּה PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ Gloss=you|Ref=PSA_55:24!1|MId=o190550240012|Strong=0859|Type=personal 3 אֱלֹהִ֨ים אֱלֹהִים NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 dislocated _ Gloss=O.God|Ref=PSA_55:24!2|MId=o190550240021|Strong=0430 4 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ Ref=PSA_55:24!2 5-6 תּוֹרִדֵ֬ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 תּוֹרִד יָרַד VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=HIPHIL|Number=Sing|Person=2 0 root _ Gloss=you|Ref=PSA_55:24!3|MId=o190550240031|Strong=3381|Frame=AA:190550240012;A0:190550240032;|Type=yiqtol 6 ֵ֬ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ Gloss=will.bring.them.down|Ref=PSA_55:24!3|MId=o190550240032|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 7 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 6 punct _ Ref=PSA_55:24!3 8-9 לִבְאֵ֬ר _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8 לִ לְ ADP _ _ 9 case _ Gloss=to.[the]|Ref=PSA_55:24!4|MId=o190550240041|Strong=3807a 9 בְאֵ֬ר בְּאֵר NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 5 obl _ Gloss=pit|Ref=PSA_55:24!4|MId=o190550240042|Strong=0875 10 שַׁ֗חַת שַׁחַת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.[the].pit|Ref=PSA_55:24!5|MId=o190550240051|Strong=7845 11 אַנְשֵׁ֤י אִישׁ NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ Gloss=people|Ref=PSA_55:24!6|MId=o190550240061|Strong=0376 12 דָמִ֣ים דָּם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 11 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.blood(s)|Ref=PSA_55:24!7|MId=o190550240071|Strong=1818 13-14 וּ֭מִרְמָה _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 13 וּ֭ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_55:24!8|MId=o190550240081|Strong=2050b 14 מִרְמָה מִרְמָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 12 conj _ Gloss=deceit|Ref=PSA_55:24!8|MId=o190550240082|Strong=4820 15 לֹא־ לֹא ADV _ _ 16 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=PSA_55:24!9|MId=o190550240091|Strong=3808|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 16 יֶחֱצ֣וּ חָצָה VERB _ Gender=Masc|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Plur|Person=3 5 parataxis _ Gloss=they.will.divide.in.half|Ref=PSA_55:24!10|MId=o190550240101|Strong=2673|Frame=A0:190550240061;A1:190550240111;|Type=yiqtol 17-18 יְמֵיהֶ֑ם _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17 יְמֵי יוֹם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 16 obj _ Gloss=days|Ref=PSA_55:24!11|MId=o190550240111|Strong=3117 18 הֶ֑ם הוּא PRON _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ Gloss=their|Ref=PSA_55:24!11|MId=o190550240112|Strong=3963a|Type=pronominal 19-20 וַ֝אֲנִ֗י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19 וַ֝ וְ CCONJ _ _ 21 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_55:24!12|MId=o190550240121|Strong=2050b 20 אֲנִ֗י אֲנִי PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ Gloss=I|Ref=PSA_55:24!12|MId=o190550240122|Strong=0589|Type=personal 21 אֶבְטַח־ בָּטַח VERB _ Gender=Com|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=1 5 conj _ Gloss=I.will.trust|Ref=PSA_55:24!13|MId=o190550240131|Strong=0982|Frame=A0:190550240122;|Type=yiqtol|SpaceAfter=No 22-23 בָּֽךְ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22 בּ בְּ ADP _ _ 23 case _ Gloss=in|Ref=PSA_55:24!14|MId=o190550240141|Strong=0871a 23 ָֽךְ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ Gloss=you|Ref=PSA_55:24!14|MId=o190550240142|Strong=3509b|Type=pronominal 24 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 23 punct _ Ref=PSA_55:24!14 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: request - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes - indirect: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | תּוֹרִד *you* | yiqtol · hiphil | ֵם *will bring them down* | | | אַתָּה *you* | | **not** יֶחֱצוּ *they will divide in half* | yiqtol · qal | אַנְשֵׁי *people* | יְמֵי *days* | | | | אֶבְטַח־ *I will trust* | yiqtol · qal | אֲנִי *I* | | | | 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} וְאַנְתְּ אֱלָהָא בְּמֵימְרָךְ תּוֹחֵית יַתְהוֹן לְגֵהִנָם עֲמִיקָא גַבְרֵי מָרֵי קְטוֹל וּנְכִילוּ לָא יֶחֱמוּן פַּלְגוּת יוֹמֵיהוֹן וַאֲנָא אִתְרְחֵיץ בְמֵימְרָךְ: 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. [But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the nethermost pit; men of blood and deceit shall not live out half their days; but as for me, I will trust in Thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.915/) **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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