Psalms 9:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽ֭יהוָה לְעוֹלָ֣ם יֵשֵׁ֑ב כּוֹנֵ֖ן לַמִּשְׁפָּ֣ט כִּסְאֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And YHWH to 'ôlām yāšab; he has kûn for mišpāṭ his kissē'

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: divine name with waw conjunctive - 'and the LORD'
*'ôlām*: masculine singular noun with lamed prefix - 'forever'
*yāšab*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'he sits/dwells'
*kûn*: polel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'he has established'
*mišpāṭ*: masculine singular noun with lamed prefix - 'for judgment'
*kissē'*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'his throne'

Word Meanings

*'ôlām*: forever/eternity/antiquity/distant time
*yāšab*: sit/dwell/remain/abide
*kûn*: establish/set up/prepare/make firm
*mišpāṭ*: judgment/justice/ordinance/legal decision
*kissē'*: throne/seat of honor

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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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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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Archaic language reduces readability
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 96:13 : 13 Before Jehovah; For he cometh, For he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with his truth.
Ps 98:9 : 9 Before Jehovah; For he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity.
Ps 99:4 : 4 The king's strength also loveth justice; Thou dost establish equity; Thou executest justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Isa 11:4-5 : 4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.
Acts 17:31 : 31 inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Rom 2:5-6 : 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; 6 who will render to every man according to his works:
Rom 2:16 : 16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
Rev 20:12-13 : 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. 13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man 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 50:6 : 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. {H5542}
Ps 94:15 : 15 For judgment shall return unto righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow it.

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