Psalms 77:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? {H5542}

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֶאָפֵ֣ס לָנֶ֣צַח חַסְדּ֑וֹ גָּ֥מַר אֹ֝֗מֶר לְדֹ֣ר וָדֹֽר

Transliteration

?-ʾāp̄ēs to-neṣaḥ ḥasdô gāmar ʾōmer to-dōr and-dōr

Grammar Details

*ʾāp̄ēs*: qal perfect with interrogative he - has it ceased?
*neṣaḥ*: masculine singular noun with prefixed lamed - forever
*ḥasdô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his lovingkindness
*gāmar*: 3rd person masculine singular qal perfect - he has finished
*ʾōmer*: masculine singular noun - word/speech/promise
*dōr*: masculine singular noun - generation

Word Meanings

*ʾāp̄ēs*: has ceased/has ended/is gone
*neṣaḥ*: forever/perpetuity/completely
*ḥasdô*: his lovingkindness/his mercy/his covenant loyalty
*gāmar*: has finished/has completed/has ended
*ʾōmer*: word/speech/promise/saying
*dōr*: generation/age/period

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 49:14-15 : 14 But Zion said, Jehovah hath forsaken me, and the Lord hath forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.
Isa 63:15 : 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where are thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy heart and thy compassions are restrained toward me.
Luke 13:25-28 : 25 When once {G302} the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, {G2962} open to us; and he shall answer and say to you, I know you not whence ye are; 26 then shall ye begin to say, We did eat and drink in thy presence, and thou didst teach in our streets; 27 and he shall say, I tell you, I know {G5209} not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. 28 There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast forth without.
Rom 11:32 : 32 For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.
1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoso {G302} hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?
Ps 25:6 : 6 Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old.
Ps 40:11 : 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah; Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
Ps 51:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Isa 40:27 : 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?

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