Psalms 100:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For God is gratious, his mercie is euerlastyng: and his trueth endureth from generation to generation.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־ט֣וֹב יְ֭הֹוָה לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּ֑וֹ וְעַד־דֹּ֥ר וָ֝דֹ֗ר אֱמוּנָֽתוֹ׃

Transliteration

For-ṭôb YHWH, for-ʿôlām ḥasdô; and-to-dōr and-dōr ʾĕmûnātô

Grammar Details

• *ṭôb*: adjective, masculine singular - good
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - forever/eternity
• *ḥasdô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his steadfast love
• *dōr*: noun, masculine singular - generation
• *ʾĕmûnātô*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his faithfulness

Word Meanings

• *ṭôb*: good/pleasant/agreeable
• *ʿôlām*: forever/eternity/perpetuity/antiquity
• *ḥasdô*: his steadfast love/his lovingkindness/his mercy/his covenant loyalty
• *dōr*: generation/age/period
• *ʾĕmûnātô*: his faithfulness/his reliability/his trustworthiness

Referenced Verses

• Ps 106:1 : 1 Prayse ye the Lorde. Confesse you it vnto god, for he is gratious: and his mercy endureth for euer.
• Ps 107:1 : 1 Confesse you it vnto God: for he is gratious, and his mercy endureth for euer.
• Ps 36:5 : 5 Thy mercy O God reacheth vnto heauen: and thy faythfulnes vnto the cloudes.
• Jer 33:11 : 11 Shall the voyce of gladnesse be heard agayne, the voyce of the bridegrome and of the bride, the voyce of them that shall sing, Prayse the Lord of hoastes, for he is louing, and his mercy endureth for euer, and the voyce of them that offer vp gyftes in the house of the Lorde: for I wyll restore the captiuitie of this lande as it was afore, saith the Lorde.
• Ps 86:5 : 5 For thou Lorde art good and gracious: and of great mercy vnto all them that call vpon thee.
• Ps 136:1-9 : 1 Confesse you it vnto the Lord, for he is gratious: and his mercy endureth for euer. 2 Confesse you it vnto the God of Gods: for his mercy endureth for euer. 3 Confesse you it vnto the Lorde of Lordes: for his mercy endureth for euer. 4 Who onlye doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for euer. 5 Who by his excellent wysdome made the heauens: for his mercy endureth for euer. 6 Who layde out the earth aboue the waters: for his mercy endureth for euer. 7 Who hath made great lightes: for his mercy endureth for euer. 8 The sunne to rule in the day: for his mercy endureth for euer. 9 The moone and the starres to gouerne in the night: for his mercy endureth for euer. 10 Who smote Egypt with their first borne: for his mercy endureth for euer. 11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for euer. 12 With a mightie hande and a stretched out arme: for his mercy endureth for euer. 13 Who deuided the red sea in partes: for his mercy endureth for euer. 14 And made Israel to passe through the myddest of it: for his mercy endureth for euer. 15 He ouerthrewe Pharao and his hoast in the red sea: for his mercy endureth for euer. 16 Who led his people through the wyldernesse: for his mercy endureth for euer. 17 Who smote great kinges: for his mercye endureth for euer. 18 And he slue mightie kynges: for his mercy endureth for euer. 19 Sihon kyng of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for euer. 20 And Og the kyng of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for euer. 21 And he gaue away their lande for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for euer. 22 For an heritage vnto Israel his seruaunt: for his mercy endureth for euer. 23 Who remembred vs when we were brought lowe: for his mercy endureth for euer. 24 And he deliuered vs from our aduersaries: for his mercy endureth for euer. 25 Who geueth foode vnto all creatures: for his mercy endureth for euer. 26 Confesse you it vnto the Lord of heauen: for his mercy endureth for euer.
• Ps 118:1-4 : 1 O confesse you it vnto God, for he is gratious: and his mercie endureth for euer. 2 Let Israel nowe confesse: that his mercie endureth for euer. 3 Let the house of Aaron nowe confesse: that his mercie endureth for euer. 4 Let them nowe that feare God: confesse that his mercie endureth for euer.
• Ps 119:68 : 68 Thou art good and beneficiall: teache me thy statutes.
• 1 Chr 16:34 : 34 O geue thankes vnto the Lorde, for he is good, for his mercie endureth euer:
• 2 Chr 5:13 : 13 And the trumpet blowers and the singers so agreed, that it seemed but one voyce in praysing & thanking the Lorde: And when they lift vp their voyce with the trumpets, cymbales, and other instrumentes of musicke, and when they praysed the Lord, How that he is good, and that his mercie lasteth euer: the house of God was filled with a cloude,
• Ezra 3:11 : 11 And they sang together when they gaue prayse and thankes vnto the lorde, Because he is gracious, and because his mercie endureth for euer vpon Israel: And all the people showted loude in praysing the Lorde, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was layd.
• Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And the Lorde passed by before hym, and cryed, Lorde, Lorde, God, strong, mercyfull and gracious, long suffering, and aboundaunt in goodnes & trueth, 7 And kepyng mercy in store for thousandes, forgeuing wickednes, vngodlynes and sinne, and not leauing one innocent, visiting the wickednes of the fathers vpon the chyldren, and vpon the chyldrens chyldren, euen vnto the third and fourth generation.
• Deut 7:9 : 9 Understande therfore, that the Lorde thy God he is God, and that a true God, which kepeth appoyntment and mercie vnto them that loue hym and kepe his commaundementes, euen throughout a thousande generations:
• Ps 89:1-2 : 1 A wyse instruction of Ethan the Ezrachite. I wyll sing alwayes of the mercy of God: with my mouth I wyll make knowen thy trueth from one generation to another. 2 For I sayde, mercy shall for euer endure: thou hast established thy trueth in the heauens.
• Ps 103:17 : 17 But the mercifull goodnesse of God endureth for euer and euer, vpon them that feare hym: and his righteousnesse vpon childers children.
• Ps 52:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a wyse instruction of Dauid, when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul and tolde him, saying: Dauid is come to the house of Achimelek. Why boastest thy self thou tiraunt of mischiefe? the goodnes of God dayly endureth.
• Ps 85:10 : 10 Mercy and trueth are met together: righteousnes and peace haue kissed eche other.
• Ps 119:90-91 : 90 Thy trueth appeareth to euery generation: thou hast layde the foundation of the earth, and it shall continue. 91 All thynges continue this day accordyng to thine ordinaunce: for all thinges be thy seruauntes.
• Ps 107:8 : 8 O that men would confesse vnto God his louyng kindnesse: and his marueylous actes done to the chyldren of men.
• Jer 33:20-21 : 20 Thus saith the Lorde: May the couenaunt whiche I haue made with day and night be broken, that there shoulde not be day and night in due season? 21 Then may my couenaunt also be broken whiche I made with Dauid my seruaunt, and so he not to haue a sonne to raigne in his throne: so shall also the Priestes and Leuites neuer fayle, but serue me.
• Nah 1:7 : 7 The Lord is gratious, a strong holde in the day of trouble, and knoweth them that trust in hym.
• Luke 1:50 : 50 And his mercy is on them that feare him, from generation to generation.
• Rom 15:8-9 : 8 And I say, that Iesus Christe was a minister of the circumcisio for the trueth of God, to confirme the promise made vnto the fathers: 9 And that the gentiles myght prayse God for his mercie, as it is written: For this cause I wyll praise thee among the gentiles, and syng vnto thy name.
• Titus 1:2 : 2 In the hope of eternall lyfe, which God that can not lye, promised before the worlde began:
• Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by hym selfe, 14 Saying: Surely, blessyng I wyll blesse thee, and multipliyng, multiplie thee. 15 And so after that he had taryed paciently, he enioyed the promise. 16 For men veryly sweare by the greater, and an oth for confirmation, is to them an ende of all stryfe. 17 Wherein God wyllyng very aboundauntly to shewe vnto the heires of promise, the stablenesse of his counsayle, confirmed by an oth: 18 That by two immutable thynges, in whiche it was vnpossible for God to lye, we myght haue a strong consolation, which haue fledde to holde fast the hope layde before vs: