Revelation 15:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

What man is there who will not have fear before you, O Lord, and give glory to your name? because you only are holy; for all the nations will come and give worship before you; for your righteousness has been made clear.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τίς οὐ μὴ φοβηθῇ σε, Κύριε, καὶ δοξάσῃ τὸ ὄνομά σου; ὅτι μόνος ὅσιος: ὅτι πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ἥξουσιν καὶ προσκυνήσουσιν ἐνώπιόν σου· ὅτι τὰ δικαιώματά σου ἐφανερώθησαν.

Transliteration

Who ou mē phobēthē you, Kyrie, and doxasē the onoma of you? For monos hosios: for all the ethnē hēxousin and proskynēsousin enōpion of you; for the dikaiōmata of you ephanerōthēsan.

Grammar Details

• *ou mē phobēthē*: double negative + aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd person singular - will certainly not fear
• *Kyrie*: vocative, masculine, singular - Lord/Master
• *doxasē*: aorist active subjunctive, 3rd person singular - might glorify/honor
• *onoma*: accusative, neuter, singular - name
• *monos*: nominative, masculine, singular - alone/only
• *hosios*: nominative, masculine, singular - holy/pious/devout
• *ethnē*: nominative, neuter, plural - nations/peoples/gentiles
• *hēxousin*: future active indicative, 3rd person plural - will come
• *proskynēsousin*: future active indicative, 3rd person plural - will worship/prostrate
• *enōpion*: preposition + genitive - before/in the presence of
• *dikaiōmata*: nominative, neuter, plural - righteous deeds/righteous acts/judgments
• *ephanerōthēsan*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person plural - were revealed/made manifest

Word Meanings

• *ou mē phobēthē*: will certainly not fear/will by no means fear
• *doxasē*: glorify/honor/magnify
• *monos*: alone/only/solely
• *hosios*: holy/set apart/devout/pious
• *ethnē*: nations/peoples/gentiles
• *hēxousin*: will come/will arrive/will approach
• *proskynēsousin*: will worship/will bow down/will prostrate themselves
• *dikaiōmata*: righteous acts/righteous deeds/righteous requirements/judgments
• *ephanerōthēsan*: were revealed/were made manifest/were displayed openly

Referenced Verses

• Ps 86:9 : 9 Let all the nations whom you have made come and give worship to you, O Lord, giving glory to your name.
• Jer 10:7 : 7 Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.
• 1 Pet 1:16 : 16 Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.
• Zech 2:11 : 11 Ho! Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.
• Mal 1:11 : 11 For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.
• Rom 15:9 : 9 And so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for his mercy; as it is said, For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will make a song to your name.
• 2 Thess 1:10-12 : 10 At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day. 11 For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete; 12 So that glory may be given to the name of our Lord Jesus through you, and you may have glory in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Luke 12:4-5 : 4 And I say to you, my friends, Have no fear of those who may put the body to death, and are able to do no more than that. 5 But I will make clear to you of whom you are to be in fear: of him who after death has power to send you to hell; yes, truly I say, Have fear of him.
• Zech 8:20-23 : 20 This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come, 21 And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you. 22 And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord. 23 This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.
• Zech 14:16 : 16 And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents.
• Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.
• Rev 4:8 : 8 And the four beasts, having every one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and inside: and without resting day and night, they say, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God, Ruler of all, who was and is and is to come.
• Rev 6:10 : 10 And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?
• Rev 11:15 : 15 And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.
• Rev 14:7 : 7 Saying with a loud voice, Have fear of God and give him glory; because the hour of his judging is come; and give worship to him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water.
• Rev 16:7 : 7 And a voice came from the altar, saying, Even so, O Lord God, Ruler of all, true and full of righteousness is your judging.
• Rev 19:2 : 2 For true and upright are his decisions; for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body; and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants.
• Jer 16:19 : 19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.
• Hos 3:5 : 5 And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.
• Hab 1:12 : 12 Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.
• Exod 15:14-16 : 14 Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain. 15 The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water. 16 Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours.
• 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God.
• Ps 22:3 : 3 But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.
• Ps 22:23 : 23 You who have fear of the Lord, give him praise; all you seed of Jacob, give him glory; go in fear of him, all you seed of Israel.
• Ps 22:27 : 27 All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.
• Ps 89:7 : 7 God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.
• Ps 97:8 : 8 Zion gave ear and was glad; and the daughters of Judah were full of joy, because of your decisions, O Lord.
• Ps 99:5 : 5 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.
• Ps 99:9 : 9 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
• Ps 105:7 : 7 He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth.
• Ps 111:9 : 9 He has sent salvation to his people; he has given his word for ever: holy is his name and greatly to be feared.
• Ps 117:1-2 : 1 Let all the nations give praise to the Lord: let all the people give him praise. 2 For great is his mercy to us, and his faith is unchanging for ever. Praise be to the Lord.
• Isa 6:3 : 3 And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.
• Isa 24:15 : 15 Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.
• Isa 25:3 : 3 For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you.
• Isa 26:9 : 9 In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.
• Isa 45:23 : 23 By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
• Isa 60:5 : 5 Then you will see, and be bright with joy, and your heart will be shaking with increase of delight: for the produce of the sea will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will come to you.
• Isa 66:18-20 : 18 And I am coming to get together all nations and tongues: and they will come and will see my glory. 19 And I will put a sign among them, and I will send those who are still living to the nations, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud, Meshech and Rosh, Tubal and Javan, to the sea-lands far away, who have not had word of me, or seen my glory; and they will give the knowledge of my glory to the nations. 20 And they will take your countrymen out of all the nations for an offering to the Lord, on horses, and in carriages, and in carts, and on asses, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel take their offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
• Isa 66:22-23 : 22 For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever. 23 And it will be, that from new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come to give worship before me, says the Lord.
• Jer 5:22 : 22 Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.