Psalms 77:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַֽ֭לְעוֹלָמִים יִזְנַ֥ח ׀ אֲדֹנָ֑י וְלֹֽא־יֹסִ֖יף לִרְצ֣וֹת עֽוֹד

Transliteration

?-for-ʿôlāmîm yiznaḥ ʾăḏōnāy and-not-yōsîp̄ lirṣôṯ ʿôḏ

Grammar Details

*ʿôlāmîm*: masculine plural noun with prefixed lamed ('for') and interrogative he - forever?
*yiznaḥ*: 3rd person masculine singular qal imperfect - he rejects
*ʾăḏōnāy*: noun, divine title - Lord/my Lord
*yōsîp̄*: 3rd person masculine singular hiphil imperfect - he will add
*lirṣôṯ*: qal infinitive construct with prefixed lamed - to favor
*ʿôḏ*: adverb - again/still/yet

Word Meanings

*ʿôlāmîm*: forever/eternities/perpetuities
*yiznaḥ*: he rejects/he casts off/he spurns
*ʾăḏōnāy*: Lord/my Lord/Master
*yōsîp̄*: he will add/he will continue/he will do again
*lirṣôṯ*: to favor/to be pleased with/to accept
*ʿôḏ*: again/still/yet/anymore

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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

Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
Rom 9:6 : 6 But [it is] not as though {G3754} the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all {G1537} Israel, that {G3778} are of Israel:
2 Pet 3:9 : 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Num 14:34 : 34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.
Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
Jer 15:18 : 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
Luke 16:25-26 : 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that they that would pass from hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from thence to us.

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72%
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Ps 79:5
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