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Psalm 73

Psa. 73:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thus my heart
lebab (Hebrew #3824)
the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like 3820
KJV usage: + bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-)heart((-ed)), midst, mind, X unawares, understanding.
Pronounce: lay-bawb'
Origin: from 3823
was grieved
chamets (Hebrew #2556)
to be pungent; i.e. in taste (sour, i.e. literally fermented, or figuratively, harsh), in color (dazzling)
KJV usage: cruel (man), dyed, be grieved, leavened.
Pronounce: khaw-mates'
Origin: a primitive root
, and I was pricked
shanan (Hebrew #8150)
to point (transitive or intransitive); intensively, to pierce; figuratively, to inculcate
KJV usage: prick, sharp(-en), teach diligently, whet.
Pronounce: shaw-nan'
Origin: a primitive root
in my reins
kilyah (Hebrew #3629)
a kidney (as an essential organ); figuratively, the mind (as the interior self)
KJV usage: kidneys, reins.
Pronounce: kil-yaw'
Origin: feminine of 3627 (only in the plural)
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Heart,
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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my heart.
Psa. 73:3• 3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. (Psa. 73:3)
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Psa. 37:1,7• 1<<A Psalm of David.>> Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
 7Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. (Psa. 37:1,7)
in my.
Job 16:13• 13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. (Job 16:13)
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Lam. 3:13• 13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. (Lam. 3:13)
• {v.21-22} He has learned the truth about the wicked; now he learns other and more important truths about himself. He now sees that when his heart was “in a ferment” (JND), he was thinking foolishly like a mere brute that has no thought of God. (“Psalms 73” by H. Smith)
• The whole land is desolated by the invading armies of the north (Dan. 11:40-43). The remnant become ashamed of envying the apostates and look wholly to the Lord for their preservation as the northern armies pass through (vs. 21-28). (“Book 3.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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When my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins,