Psalms 118:17

American Standard Version (1901)

I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of Jehovah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹֽא אָמ֥וּת כִּי־אֶֽחְיֶ֑ה וַ֝אֲסַפֵּ֗ר מַֽעֲשֵׂ֥י יָֽהּ

Transliteration

Not ʾāmût because-ʾeḥyeh and-ʾăsappēr maʿăśê Yāh

Grammar Details

• *ʾāmût*: imperfect, 1st person singular - I will die
• *ʾeḥyeh*: imperfect, 1st person singular - I will live
• *ʾăsappēr*: imperfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will recount
• *maʿăśê*: noun, masculine plural construct - works of
• *Yāh*: divine name, shortened form - Yah

Word Meanings

• *ʾāmût*: I will die/I shall die
• *ʾeḥyeh*: I will live/I shall live
• *ʾăsappēr*: I will recount/I will declare/I will tell
• *maʿăśê*: works/deeds/acts

Referenced Verses

• Ps 73:28 : 28 But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge, That I may tell of all thy works.
• Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?
• Ps 107:22 : 22 And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, And declare his works with singing.
• Hab 1:12 : 12 Art not thou from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established him for correction.
• Isa 38:16-20 : 16 O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live. 17 Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 18 For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth. 20 Jehovah is [ready] to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments All the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.
• Jer 51:10 : 10 Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.
• John 11:4 : 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.
• Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself. 8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. 9 For to this end Christ died and lived [again], that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
• Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lips have I declared All the ordinances of thy mouth.
• Ps 145:4 : 4 One generation shall laud thy works to another, And shall declare thy mighty acts.
• Ps 40:5 : 5 Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward; They cannot be set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.
• Ps 40:10 : 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great assembly.
• Ps 71:17-18 : 17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 18 Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto [the next] generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.