Deuteronomy 28:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְקֽ͏ִימְךָ֨ יְהוָ֥ה לוֹ֙ לְעַ֣ם קָד֔וֹשׁ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר נִֽשְׁבַּֽע־לָ֑ךְ כִּ֣י תִשְׁמֹ֗ר אֶת־מִצְוֺת֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ וְהָלַכְתָּ֖ בִּדְרָכָֽיו׃

Transliteration

Yĕqîmĕkā YHWH to lô for ʿam qādôš as kaʾăšer nišbaʿ-to lāk if tišmōr ʾet-miṣwōt YHWH ʾĕlōhêkā and you have hālaktā in dĕrākāyw.

Grammar Details

• *Yĕqîmĕkā*: imperfect, Hiphil, 3rd masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - he will establish you
• *YHWH*: proper name - the LORD
• *lô*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - to himself
• *ʿam*: masculine singular construct - people of
• *qādôš*: masculine singular adjective - holy
• *kaʾăšer*: conjunction - as/just as
• *nišbaʿ*: perfect, Niphal, 3rd masculine singular - he has sworn
• *lāk*: preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - to you
• *tišmōr*: imperfect, Qal, 2nd masculine singular - you will keep
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *miṣwōt*: feminine plural construct - commandments of
• *ʾĕlōhêkā*: masculine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your God
• *hālaktā*: perfect, consecutive, Qal, 2nd masculine singular - and you will walk
• *dĕrākāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his ways

Word Meanings

• *Yĕqîmĕkā*: establish you/raise you up/confirm you
• *ʿam qādôš*: holy people/set-apart nation
• *tišmōr*: keep/observe/guard
• *hālaktā* in *dĕrākāyw*: walk in his ways/follow his paths [metaphor for obeying]

Referenced Verses

• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
• Deut 13:17 : 17 Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:
• Deut 26:18-19 : 18 And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders; 19 And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;
• Gen 17:7 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
• Deut 7:8 : 8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
• Deut 29:12-13 : 12 With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today: 13 And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• Ps 87:5 : 5 And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.
• Isa 1:26 : 26 And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.
• Isa 62:12 : 12 And they will be named, The holy people, Those whose cause has been taken up by the Lord: and you will be named, Desired, A town not given up.
• Jer 11:5 : 5 So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.
• 2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is true, who will give you strength and keep you safe from evil.
• Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself, 14 Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great. 15 And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect. 16 For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath. 17 So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath; 18 So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
• 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven. 10 In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you. 11 My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;