Psalms 50:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. {H5542}

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּגִּ֣ידוּ שָׁמַ֣יִם צִדְק֑וֹ כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֓ים ׀ שֹׁפֵ֖ט ה֣וּא סֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

Wayyaggidu shamayim tsidqo for-Elohim shophet hu selah

Grammar Details

*Wayyaggidu*: verb, Hiphil imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd person masculine plural - and they declared
*shamayim*: noun, masculine, plural - heavens
*tsidqo*: noun, masculine, singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his righteousness
*Elohim*: noun, masculine, plural - God/gods
*shophet*: verb, Qal participle, masculine singular - judging/a judge
*hu*: pronoun, 3rd person masculine singular - he
*selah*: interjection - musical notation, meaning uncertain

Word Meanings

*Wayyaggidu*: and they declare/and they will declare
*shophet*: judge/one who judges
*selah*: pause/musical interlude/lift up

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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

Ps 75:7 : 7 But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.
Ps 97:6 : 6 The heavens declare his righteousness, And all the peoples have seen his glory.
Ps 89:5 : 5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
Rev 19:2 : 2 for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Rev 20:11-12 : 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Gen 18:25 : 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Ps 7:3-5 : 3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;) 5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. {H5542}
Ps 9:16 : 16 Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. {H1902} Selah}
John 5:22-23 : 22 For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son; 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that sent him.
Rom 2:5 : 5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Rom 14:9-9 : 9 For to this end Christ {G2532} died and {G450} {G2532} lived [again], that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. 10 But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or {G2532} thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God. 11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, And every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.
2 Cor 5:10 : 10 For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.
Rev 16:5-7 : 5 And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Righteous art thou, who art and who wast, {G2532} {G3741} thou Holy One, because thou didst thus judge: 6 for they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: {G1063} they are worthy. 7 And I heard {G243} the altar saying, Yea, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

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