Lamentations 3:25

Bishops' Bible (1568)

O howe good is the Lord vnto them that put their trust in hym, and to the soule that seeketh after hym.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ט֤וֹב יְהוָה֙ לְקֹוָ֔ו לְנֶ֖פֶשׁ תִּדְרְשֶֽׁנּוּ׃

Transliteration

ṭôb YHWH to qōwāw to nepeš tidreše̱nnû

Grammar Details

• *ṭôb*: adjective, masculine singular - good
• *YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/LORD
• *qōwāw*: verb, qal participle, masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - ones waiting for him
• *nepeš*: noun, feminine singular - soul
• *tidreše̱nnû*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - she seeks him

Word Meanings

• *ṭôb*: good/pleasant/agreeable
• *qōwāw*: ones waiting for him/ones hoping in him
• *nepeš*: soul/life/person
• *tidreše̱nnû*: she seeks him/she inquires of him

Referenced Verses

• Ps 25:8 : 8 Gratious and ryghteous is God: therfore he wyll teache sinners in the way.
• Ps 27:8 : 8 My heart hath sayde vnto thee according to this thy commaundement seeke ye my face: thy face O God wyll I seeke.
• Ps 27:14 : 14 Attende thou therfore vpon God, be of a good courage, and he will comfort thine heart: I say attende thou vpon God.
• Ps 37:7 : 7 Holde thee still in God, and wayte paciently vpon him: fret not thy selfe at him whose way doth prosper, at the man that doth abhominations.
• Ps 37:34 : 34 Wayte thou on God & kepe his way, and he wyll promote thee, that thou mayest possesse the lande: when the vngodly shalbe cut of, thou shalt see it.
• Ps 39:7 : 7 And nowe Lord what wayte I after? truely my hope is euen in thee.
• Ps 40:1-5 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a psalme of Dauid. I wayted patiently vpon God, and he enclined vnto me his eare: and heard my crying. 2 He brought me also out of an horrible pyt, out of the dirtie mire: and set my feete vpon a rocke, and directed my goynges. 3 And he hath put a newe song in my mouth: euen a thankesgeuyng vnto our Lorde. 4 Many shall see it, and feare: and shall put their trust in God. 5 Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in God: and turned not vnto the proude, and to such as decline to lyes.
• Isa 25:9 : 9 And in that day it shalbe sayde, lo this is our God, we haue wayted for hym, and he shall saue vs, this is the Lorde in whom we haue hoped, we wyll be merie and reioyce in the saluation that commeth of hym.
• Gen 49:18 : 18 I haue wayted for thy saluation O Lorde.
• 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 And he went out to meete Asa, and said vnto him: Heare me Asa, and al Iuda and Beniamin, the Lorde is with you, while ye be with him: and when ye seeke him, he wyll be founde of you: and againe when ye forsake him, he also wyll forsake you.
• 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Neuerthelesse, there are some good actes founde in thee, in that thou hast hewen downe the groues out of the lande, and hast prepared thyne heart to seke God.
• Mic 7:7-8 : 7 Neuerthelesse, I wil looke vp vnto the Lorde, I will patiently abyde God my sauiour: my God shall heare me. 8 O thou enemie of myne reioyce not at my fall, for I shall rise againe: & though I sit in darkenesse, yet the Lorde is my light.
• 2 Chr 31:21 : 21 And in al the workes that he began, for seruice of the house of God, for the lawe, & for the commaundementes, he sought his God: and that did he with all his heart, and prospered.
• Ps 22:26 : 26 The poore shall eate, and be satisfied: they that seeke after God shall prayse hym, your heart shall lyue for euer.
• Zeph 3:8 : 8 Therfore wayte ye vpon me, sayth the Lorde, vntill the time that I ryse vp to the pray: for I am determined to gather the people, & to bring the kingdomes together, that I may poure out myne anger, yea all my wrathfull displeasure vpon them: For all the earth shalbe consumed with the fire of my ielousie.
• 1 Thess 1:10 : 10 And to tary for his sonne from heauen, whom he raysed from the dead: euen Iesus which delyuereth vs from the wrath to come.
• Jas 5:7 : 7 Be patient therfore brethren, vnto the commyng of the Lorde. Beholde, the husbandman wayteth for the precious fruite of the earth, and hath long patience thervpon, vntill he receaue the early and the later rayne.
• 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 That prepareth his heart to seeke the Lorde God, the God of his fathers: though he be not clensed accordyng to the purification of the sanctuarie.
• 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And thou Solomon my sonne, knowe thou the God of thy father, and serue him with a pure heart and with a wyllyng minde: For the Lord searcheth al heartes, and vnderstandeth all the immaginations of thoughtes: And if thou seeke him, he wyll be founde of thee: but if thou forsake him, he wyll cast thee of for euer.
• Isa 26:9 : 9 My soule hath longed for thee all the night, and with my spirite whiche is within me wyll I seeke thee early in the morning: For when thy iudgementes are in the earth, the inhabiters of the worlde shall learne righteousnesse.
• Isa 30:18 : 18 Therefore doth the Lorde cause you to wayte, that he may haue mercy vpon you, to the entent that he may haue the preeminence when he is gratious vnto you: For the Lord is the God of iudgement, Blessed are all they that hope in hym.
• Isa 40:31 : 31 But vnto them that haue their trust in the Lorde, shall strength be increased: Egles winges shall growe vpon them, when they runne they shall not fall, and when they go they shall not be weerie.
• Isa 55:6 : 6 Seke the Lorde whyle he may be founde, and call vpon hym whyle he is nye.
• Isa 64:4 : 4 For since the beginning of the worlde it hath not ben hearde or perceaued, neither hath any eye seene another God beside thee, whiche doest so muche for them that put their trust in thee.
• Lam 3:26 : 26 The good man with stilnesse and pacience, taryeth for the health of the Lorde.
• Hos 10:12 : 12 Sowe to your selues in righteousnesse, and reape the fruites of well doyng, plowe vp your freshe lande: for it is tyme to seeke the Lorde tyll he come and rayne righteousnesse vpon you.
• Ps 61:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition vpon Neginoth of Dauid. Heare my crying O Lorde: geue eare vnto my prayer.
• Ps 61:5 : 5 For thou O Lorde hast hearde my vowes: and hast geuen an heritage vnto those that feare thy name.
• Ps 69:32 : 32 The humble wyll consider this and be glad, such as seke after God: and your soule shall lyue.
• Ps 105:3 : 3 Glary ye in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God.
• Ps 119:2 : 2 Blessed are they that kepe his testimonies: they seke hym with their whole heart.
• Ps 130:5-6 : 5 I haue wayted for God, my soule haue wayted for hym: and I haue reposed my trust in his worde. 6 My soule lifteth more after God, then watchmen do after the morning: I say more then watchmen do after the mornyng.