Psalms 138:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jehovah will perfect that which concerneth me: Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, [endureth] for ever; Forsake not the works of thine own hands.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוָה֮ יִגְמֹ֢ר בַּ֫עֲדִ֥י יְ֭הוָה חַסְדְּךָ֣ לְעוֹלָ֑ם מַעֲשֵׂ֖י יָדֶ֣יךָ אַל־תֶּֽרֶף׃

Transliteration

YHWH will gāmar on-behalf-of-me; YHWH, ḥesed-your to-ʿōlām; maʿăśeh yād-your ʾal-rāpâ.

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*gāmar*: Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will complete/fulfill/accomplish/perfect
*ḥesed*: masculine singular construct with 2nd person masculine suffix - your lovingkindness/steadfast love
*ʿōlām*: masculine singular absolute - everlasting/eternity/perpetuity
*maʿăśeh*: masculine plural construct - works/deeds/actions of
*yād*: feminine dual construct with 2nd person masculine suffix - your hands
*ʾal*: negative particle - not/do not
*rāpâ*: Hiphil jussive 2nd person masculine singular - forsake/abandon/let go

Word Meanings

*YHWH*: LORD/Yahweh/Jehovah (divine name)
*gāmar*: complete/fulfill/accomplish/perfect/finish
*ḥesed*: lovingkindness/steadfast love/covenant faithfulness/mercy
*ʿōlām*: forever/eternity/perpetuity/ancient time
*maʿăśeh*: work/deed/labor/action/product
*yād*: hands/power/strength/authority
*rāpâ*: abandon/forsake/let go/relax your hold

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Phil 1:6 : 6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Ps 57:2 : 2 I will cry unto God Most High, Unto God that performeth [all things] for me.
1 Thess 5:24 : 24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it.
Isa 26:12 : 12 [Jehovah,] [thou wilt ordain] [peace] [for us; for thou hast also wrought] [all our works] [for us.]
Ps 136:1 : 1 Oh give thanks unto Jehovah; For he is good; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
Ps 103:17 : 17 But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children's children;
Ps 100:3 : 3 Know ye that Jehovah, he is God: It is he that hath made us, and we are his; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Ps 71:6-9 : 6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee. 7 I am as a wonder unto many; But thou art my strong refuge. 8 My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, And with thy honor all the day. 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Isa 43:21 : 21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.
Jer 32:39-40 : 39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: 40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
1 Pet 4:19 : 19 Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator.
Rom 8:28-30 : 28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, [even] to them that are called according to [his] purpose. 29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: 30 and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
John 15:2 : 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every [branch] that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.
Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
1 Pet 1:3-5 : 3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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.
Job 10:3 : 3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 10:8 : 8 Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Ps 100:5 : 5 For Jehovah is good; His lovingkindness [endureth] for ever, And his faithfulness unto all generations.
Job 14:15 : 15 Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.
Rom 5:10 : 10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;
Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

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