Psalms 121:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in From this time forth and for evermore.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְֽהוָ֗ה יִשְׁמָר־צֵאתְךָ֥ וּבוֹאֶ֑ךָ מֵֽ֝עַתָּ֗ה וְעַד־עוֹלָֽם

Transliteration

YHWH yišmār-your ṣēʾtkā and your bôʾekā from mēʿattāh and until-ʿôlām.

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
*yišmār*: imperfect Qal, 3rd person masculine singular - he will keep/guard
*ṣēʾtkā*: infinitive construct Qal with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your going out
*ûbôʾekā*: infinitive construct Qal with 2nd person masculine singular suffix and prefixed conjunction waw - and your coming in
*mēʿattāh*: preposition min with adverb - from now
*wəʿad-ʿôlām*: preposition with noun, masculine singular and prefixed conjunction waw - and until forever

Word Meanings

*yišmār*: will keep/will guard/will protect/will watch over
*ṣēʾtkā*: your going out/your departure/your exit
*bôʾekā*: your coming in/your entrance/your arrival
*mēʿattāh*: from now/from this time
*ʿôlām*: forever/eternity/perpetuity

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About this Translation

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Deut 28:6 : 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Ps 113:2 : 2 Blessed be the name of Jehovah From this time forth and for evermore.
Ps 115:18 : 18 But we will bless Jehovah From this time forth and for evermore. Praise ye Jehovah.
Prov 2:8 : 8 That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
Prov 3:6 : 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.
Jas 4:13-16 : 13 Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. {G1063} What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that. 16 But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.
2 Sam 5:2 : 2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was thou that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and Jehovah said to thee, Thou shalt be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over Israel.
Ezra 8:21 : 21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Ezra 8:31 : 31 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the lier-in-wait by the way.
Deut 28:19 : 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

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