--- title: Psalms 69:16 — Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me… · Hebrew, tree and pragmatics description: Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Who acts: you, waterflood, deep, pit. Psalms 69:16 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.69.16/) [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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA/69/) / 69:16 # Psalms 69:16 תְּהִלִּים **Who acts:** you, waterflood, deep, pit · **What happens:** not let, overwhelm, let, swallow up, shut · **To what, where:** waterflood, me, deep, pit, mouth This is Psalms 69:16 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, waterflood, deep, pit — and what happens in the verse to waterflood, me, deep, pit, mouth, 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. אַל־תִּשְׁטְפֵ֤נִי ׀ שִׁבֹּ֣לֶת מַ֭יִם וְאַל־תִּבְלָעֵ֣נִי מְצוּלָ֑ה וְאַל־תֶּאְטַר־עָלַ֖י בְּאֵ֣ר פִּֽיהָ׃ [Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1143/) ## 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:1060 # text = אַל־תִּשְׁטְפֵ֤נִי ׀ שִׁבֹּ֣לֶת מַ֭יִם וְאַל־תִּבְלָעֵ֣נִי מְצוּלָ֑ה וְאַל־תֶּאְטַר־עָלַ֖י בְּאֵ֣ר פִּֽיהָ׃ # verse = PSA.69.16 1 אַל־ אַל ADV _ _ 2 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=PSA_69:16!1|MId=o190690160011|Strong=0408|Type=negative|SpaceAfter=No 2-3 תִּשְׁטְפֵ֤נִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 תִּשְׁטְפ שָׁטַף VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 0 root _ Gloss=let|Ref=PSA_69:16!2|MId=o190690160021|Strong=7857|Frame=A1:190690160022;A0:190690160031;|Type=jussive 3 ֵ֤נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ Gloss=it.overflow.me|Ref=PSA_69:16!2|MId=o190690160022|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 4 ׀ ׀ PUNCT _ _ 3 punct _ Ref=PSA_69:16!2 5 שִׁבֹּ֣לֶת שִׁבֹּלֶת NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Gloss=a.flood|Ref=PSA_69:16!3|MId=o190690160031|Strong=7641a 6 מַ֭יִם מַיִם NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Plur 5 compound:smixut _ Gloss=of.water|Ref=PSA_69:16!4|MId=o190690160041|Strong=4325 7-8 וְאַל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 9 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_69:16!5|MId=o190690160051|Strong=2050b 8 אַל־ אַל ADV _ _ 9 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=PSA_69:16!5|MId=o190690160052|Strong=0408|Type=negative 9-10 תִּבְלָעֵ֣נִי _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 תִּבְלָע בָּלַע VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=let|Ref=PSA_69:16!6|MId=o190690160061|Strong=1104|Frame=A1:190690160062;A0:190690160071;|Type=jussive 10 ֵ֣נִי הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ Gloss=it.swallow.me.up|Ref=PSA_69:16!6|MId=o190690160062|Strong=5204a|Type=pronominal 11 מְצוּלָ֑ה מְצוֹלָה NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].deep|Ref=PSA_69:16!7|MId=o190690160071|Strong=4688 12-13 וְאַל־ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 וְ וְ CCONJ _ _ 14 cc _ Gloss=and|Ref=PSA_69:16!8|MId=o190690160081|Strong=2050b 13 אַל־ אַל ADV _ _ 14 advmod _ Gloss=not|Ref=PSA_69:16!8|MId=o190690160082|Strong=0408|Type=negative 14 תֶּאְטַר־ אָטַר VERB _ Gender=Fem|HebBinyan=QAL|Number=Sing|Person=3 2 conj _ Gloss=let.it.close|Ref=PSA_69:16!9|MId=o190690160091|Strong=0332|Frame=A0:190690160111;A1:190690160121;|Type=jussive|SpaceAfter=No 15-16 עָלַ֖י _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 עָל עַל ADP _ _ 16 case _ Gloss=over|Ref=PSA_69:16!10|MId=o190690160101|Strong=5921 16 ַ֖י הוּא PRON _ Gender=Com|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ Gloss=me|Ref=PSA_69:16!10|MId=o190690160102|Strong=2967a|Type=pronominal 17 בְּאֵ֣ר בְּאֵר NOUN _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Gloss=[the].pit|Ref=PSA_69:16!11|MId=o190690160111|Strong=0875 18-19 פִּֽיהָ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 18 פִּֽי פֶּה NOUN _ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing 14 obj _ Gloss=mouth|Ref=PSA_69:16!12|MId=o190690160121|Strong=6310 19 הָ הוּא PRON _ Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ Gloss=its|Ref=PSA_69:16!12|MId=o190690160122|Strong=1886d|Type=pronominal 20 ׃ ׃ PUNCT _ _ 19 punct _ Ref=PSA_69:16!12 ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: character - speech: inside a quote begun earlier - negation: yes | verb | form · stem | who (A0) | what, whom (A1) | to whom, further (A2) | who makes it happen (AA) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **not** תִּשְׁטְפ *let* | jussive · qal | שִׁבֹּלֶת *a flood* | ֵנִי *it overflow me* | | | | **not** תִּבְלָע *let* | jussive · qal | מְצוּלָה *\[the\] deep* | ֵנִי *it swallow me up* | | | | **not** תֶּאְטַר־ *let it close* | jussive · qal | בְּאֵר *\[the\] pit* | פִּֽי *mouth* | | | 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} לָא יִגְלֵי יָתִי עַם תַּקִיף וְלָא יִסַלְעֵם לְמֶחְפֵּי עֲלַי מְצוּלְתָּא חָסִין וְלָא תִפְתַּח עֲלַי גֵהִנָם פּוּמָהּ: 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. [Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1143/) **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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