Romans 9:28

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

for the Lord will execute [his] word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λόγον γὰρ συντελῶν, καὶ συντέμνων ἐν δικαιοσυνῃ: ὅτι λόγον συντετμημένον ποιήσει Κύριος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

Transliteration

For logon syntelōn, and syntemnōn in dikaiosynē: because logon syntetmēmenon poiēsei Kyrios upon the gēs.

Grammar Details

• *logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - word/account
• *syntelōn*: present, participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - completing/finishing
• *syntemnōn*: present, participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - cutting short
• *dikaiosynē*: dative, feminine, singular - righteousness
• *syntetmēmenon*: perfect, participle, passive, accusative, masculine, singular - having been cut short
• *poiēsei*: future, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - will make/do
• *Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *gēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

• *logon*: word/account/matter
• *syntelōn*: completing/finishing/concluding
• *syntemnōn*: cutting short/executing quickly
• *dikaiosynē*: righteousness/justice
• *syntetmēmenon*: having been cut short/decisive/final
• *poiēsei*: will make/do/execute
• *gēs*: earth/land/world

Referenced Verses

• Ps 9:8 : 8 And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
• Ps 65:5 : 5 By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness, Oh God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of them that are afar off upon the sea:
• Isa 5:16 : 16 but Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
• Isa 10:23 : 23 For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.
• Isa 28:22 : 22 Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.
• Isa 30:12-14 : 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon; 13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant. 14 And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.
• Dan 9:26-27 : 26 And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined. 27 And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations [shall come] one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out upon the desolate.
• Matt 24:21 : 21 for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.
• 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.
• Rev 19:11 : 11 And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon {G846} called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.