Revelation 15:3

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And they sang the song of Moyses the seruaunt of God, and the song of the lambe, saying: Great and marueylous are thy workes Lorde God almightie, iust and true are thy wayes thou kyng of saintes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ᾄδουσιν τὴν ᾠδὴν Μωϋσέως τοῦ δούλου τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ τὴν ᾠδὴν τοῦ Ἀρνίου, λέγοντες, Μεγάλα καὶ θαυμαστὰ τὰ ἔργα σου, Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς ὁ Παντοκράτωρ· δίκαιαι καὶ ἀληθιναὶ αἱ ὁδοί σου, ὁ Βασιλεὺς τῶν ἁγίων.

Transliteration

And adousin the ōdēn of Mōÿsēs the doulos of the Theos, and the ōdēn of the Arniou, legontes, Megala and thaumasta the erga of you, Kyrie the Theos the Pantokratōr; dikaiai and alēthinai the hodoi of you, the Basileus of the hagiōn.

Grammar Details

• *adousin*: present active indicative, 3rd person plural - they sing/are singing
• *ōdēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - song/ode
• *Mōÿsēs*: genitive, masculine, singular - Moses [proper name]
• *doulos*: genitive, masculine, singular - servant/slave
• *Theos*: genitive, masculine, singular - God/deity
• *Arniou*: genitive, neuter, singular - Lamb
• *legontes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - saying/speaking
• *Megala*: nominative, neuter, plural - great/mighty
• *thaumasta*: nominative, neuter, plural - wonderful/marvelous
• *erga*: nominative, neuter, plural - works/deeds
• *Kyrie*: vocative, masculine, singular - Lord/Master
• *Pantokratōr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Almighty/Omnipotent
• *dikaiai*: nominative, feminine, plural - righteous/just
• *alēthinai*: nominative, feminine, plural - true/genuine
• *hodoi*: nominative, feminine, plural - ways/roads/paths
• *Basileus*: nominative, masculine, singular - King/Sovereign
• *hagiōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - holy ones/saints/set apart ones

Word Meanings

• *adousin*: sing/chant/intone
• *ōdēn*: song/ode/hymn
• *doulos*: servant/slave/bondservant
• *Arniou*: Lamb/little lamb [symbolic reference]
• *Megala*: great/mighty/magnificent
• *thaumasta*: marvelous/wonderful/astonishing
• *erga*: works/deeds/actions
• *Kyrie*: Lord/Master/Sovereign
• *Pantokratōr*: Almighty/All-powerful/Omnipotent
• *dikaiai*: righteous/just/fair
• *alēthinai*: true/genuine/real
• *hodoi*: ways/paths/roads/journeys
• *Basileus*: King/Sovereign/Ruler
• *hagiōn*: saints/holy ones/set apart ones/nations

Referenced Verses

• Ps 111:2 : 2 Great are the workes of God: sought out of all them that haue pleasure therin.
• Ps 145:17 : 17 God is righteous in all his wayes: and holy in all his workes.
• Ps 139:14 : 14 I wyll confesse it vnto thee, for that thy doynges are to be dreaded, I am made after a marueylous sort: thy workes be marueylous, and that my soule knoweth ryght well.
• Exod 15:1-9 : 1 Then Moyses & the children of Israel sange this sounge vnto the Lorde, and sayde on this maner: I wil sing vnto the Lorde, for he hath triumphed gloriouslie, the horse and hym that rode vpon hym hath he ouerthrowen in the sea. 2 The Lorde is my strength and praise, and he is become my saluation: he is my God, and I wyll glorifie hym, my fathers God, and I wyll exalt hym. 3 The Lorde is a man of warre, the Lorde is his name. 4 Pharaos charets and his hoast hath he cast into the sea, his chosen captaynes also are drowned in the red sea. 5 The deepe waters hath couered them, they sunke to the bottome as a stone. 6 Thy ryght hande Lorde is become glorious in power, thy ryght hande Lorde hath all to dasshed the enemie. 7 And in thy great glorie thou hast ouerthrowe them that rose vp agaynst thee: thou sendest foorth thy wrath, whiche consumed them euen as stubble. 8 Through the wynde of thy nosethrils the water gathered together, ye fluddes stoode styll as an heape, and the deepe water congeled together in the heart of the sea. 9 The enemie sayde, I wyll folowe on the I wyll ouertake them I wyll deuide the spoyle, and my lust shalbe satisfied vppon them: I wyll drawe my sworde, myne hande shall destroy them. 10 Thou diddest blowe with thy wynde, the sea couered the, they sanke as leade in the myghtie waters. 11 Who is like vnto thee O Lord amongst gods? Who is like thee, so glorious in holynesse, fearefull in prayses, shewyng wonders? 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hande, the earth swalowed them. 13 Thou in thy mercie hast caryed this people which thou hast redeemed, and hast brought them in thy strength vnto thy holy habitation. 14 The nations shal heare, & be afraide, sorowe shall come vpon Palestina. 15 Then the dukes of the Edomites shalbe amazed, and the myghtyest of the Moabites tremblyng shall come vpon them, al the inhabiters of Chanaan shal waxe faynt hearted. 16 Feare & dreade shal fall vpon them, in the greatnesse of thine arme they shalbe as styll as a stone, tyll thy people passe through, O Lorde, whyle this people passe through which thou hast gotten. 17 Thou shalt bryng them in, and plant them in the mountayne of thine inheritaunce, the place Lord which thou hast made for to dwell in, the sanctuarie, O Lord, which thy handes haue prepared 18 The Lorde shall raigne for euer and euer.
• Hos 14:9 : 9 Who so is wise, shall vnderstande these thinges, and he that is right instruct wyll regarde them: for the wayes of the Lorde are righteous, such as be godly wyll walke in them: as for the wicked, they shall stumble therin.
• Heb 3:5 : 5 And Moyses veryly was faythfull in al his house, as a minister, for a witnesse of those thynges whiche were to be spoken after:
• Zech 9:9 : 9 Reioyce thou greatly O daughter Sion, be glad O daughter Hierusalem: For lo, the king commeth vnto thee, euen the righteous and sauiour, lowly & simple is he, he rydeth vpon an Asse and vpon the foale of an Asse.
• Isa 32:1-2 : 1 Beholde, a kyng shall gouerne after the rule of righteousnesse, and the princes shall rule according to the ballaunce of equitie. 2 And that man shalbe vnto men as a defence for the winde, and as a refuge for the tempest, lyke as a ryuer of water in a thirstie place, and the shadowe of a great rocke in a drye lande.
• Isa 33:22 : 22 For the Lorde is our iudge, the Lord is our lawe geuer, the Lord is our king, and he hym selfe shalbe our sauiour.
• Ps 118:22-23 : 22 The same stone which the buylders refused: is become the head stone of the corner. 23 This was the doyng of God: and it is marueylous in our eyes.
• Gen 17:1 : 1 When Abram was ninetie yere olde and nine, the Lorde appeared to hym, and sayde vnto hym: I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfect.
• Rev 16:5-7 : 5 And I hearde the angell of the waters say: Lorde, which art, and wast, thou art ryghteous & holy, because thou hast geuen such iudgementes: 6 For they shed out the blood of saintes and prophetes, and therfore hast thou geuen them blood to drynke: for they are worthie. 7 And I heard another out of the aulter say: euen so Lorde God almightie, true and ryghteous are thy iudgementes.
• Rev 19:2 : 2 For true and ryghteous are his iudgementes, for he hath iudged the great whore which dyd corrupt ye earth with her fornication, and hath auenged the blood of his seruauntes of her hande.
• Rev 19:16 : 16 And hath on his vesture and on his thygh a name written, King of kinges, and Lorde of lordes.
• Deut 31:30-32:43 : 30 And Moyses spake in the eares of all the congregation of Israel the wordes of this song, vntyll he had ended them. 1 Heare O ye heauens, and I shal speake, and let the earth heare the wordes of my mouth. 2 My doctrine shal drop as doth the rayne: and my speache shall flowe as doth the deawe, as the shoure vpon the hearbes, and as the droppes vpon the grasse. 3 For I wyll publishe the name of the Lord: Ascribe ye honour vnto our God. 4 Perfect is the worke of the most mightie God, for all his wayes are iudgement: He is a God of trueth, without wickednesse, righteous and iust is he. 5 Frowardly haue they done agaynst hym by their vices, not beyng his owne children, but a wicked and frowarde generation. 6 Do ye so rewarde the Lord, O foolishe nation and vnwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Hath he nat made thee, and ordeyned thee? 7 Remember the dayes of the worlde that is past, consider the yeres of so many generations: Aske thy father, and he wyll shewe thee, thy elders, and they wyll tell thee. 8 When the most hyest deuided to the nations their inheritaunce, and when he seperated the sonnes of Adam, he put the borders of the nations accordyng to the number of the children of Israel: 9 For the Lordes part is his people, and Iacob is the portion of his inheritauce. 10 He founde hym in a desert lande, in a voyde grounde, and in a roaryng wildernesse: He led hym about, he gaue hym vnderstandyng, and kept hym as the apple of his eye. 11 As an Egle that stirreth vp her nest, and flittereth ouer her young, & spreadeth her wynges, taketh them, and beareth them on her wynges: 12 The Lorde alone was his guyde, and there was no straunge god with hym. 13 He caryed hym vp to the hygh places of the earth, that he myght eate the encrease of the fieldes: And he fed hym with honye out of the rocke, and with oyle out of the most harde stone: 14 With butter of kine, and mylke of the sheepe, with fat of the lambes, and fat of rammes and hee goates, with the fat of the most plenteous wheate, and that thou myghtest drynke the most pure blood of the grape. 15 But he that shoulde haue ben vpright, when he waxed fat, spurned with his heele: Thou art well fed, thou art growen thicke, thou art euen laden with fatnesse: And he forsoke God his maker, and regarded not the God of his saluation. 16 They prouoked hym to anger with straunge gods, euen with abhominations prouoked they hym. 17 They offered vnto deuils, and not to God: euen to gods whom they knewe not, to newe gods that came newly vp, whom their fathers feared not. 18 Of God that begat thee thou art vnmyndfull, and hast forgotten God that made thee. 19 The Lorde therfore sawe it, and was angry: because of the prouokyng of his sonnes and his daughters. 20 And he sayde: I wyll hyde my face from them, and wil see what their ende shalbe: For they are a very frowarde generation, childre in whom is no faith. 21 They haue angred me with that which is no god, and prouoked me with their vanities: And I also wyll prouoke them with those whiche are no people, I wyll anger them with a foolishe nation. 22 For fire is kindled in my wrath, and burneth vnto the bottome of hell, and hath consumed the earth with her increase, and set a fire the botomes of the mountaynes. 23 I wyll heape mischiefes vpon them, & wyll destroy them with mine arrowes. 24 They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I wyll also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the furiousnesse of serpentes in the dust. 25 Withoutforth shall the sworde robbe them of their children, and within in the chamber feare: both young men & young women, and the suckelynges, with the men of gray heades. 26 I haue sayde, I wyll scatter them abrode, and make the remembraunce of them to ceasse from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemie, lest their aduersaries should vtterly withdrawe the selues, and lest they shoulde say: our hye hande hath done all this, and not the Lorde. 28 For it is a nation voyde of counsayle, neither is there any vnderstandyng in them. 29 O that they were wyse, and vnderstoode this, that they woulde consider their latter ende. 30 Howe shoulde one chase a thousande, & two put ten thousand to flyght, except their maker had solde them, and except the Lorde had shut them vp? 31 For their god is not as our God: our enemies also them selues are iudges. 32 For their vine is of the vineyarde of Sodome, & of the fieldes of Gomorra: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters be bitter. 33 Their vine is the poyson of dragons, and the cruell gall of aspes. 34 Is not this layde in store with me, and sealed vp among my treasures? 35 Uengeaunce is myne, and I wyll rewarde, their feete shall slyde in due tyme: For the day of their destruction is at hande, and the thynges that shall come vpon them, make haste. 36 For the Lord shal iudge his people, and haue compassion on his seruautes, when he seeth that their power is gone, and that they be in a maner shut vp, or brought to naught and forsaken. 37 And he shall say: Where are their gods, their god in whom they trusted? 38 The fat of whose sacrifices they dyd eate, & dranke the wine of their drinke offerynges: let them ryse vp, and helpe you, and be your protection. 39 See nowe howe that I, I am God, and there is none but I: I kyll, and wyll make alyue: I wounde, and wyll heale, neither is there any that can delyuer out of my hande. 40 For I wyll lift vp myne hande to heauen, and wyll say: I lyue euer. 41 If I whet the edge of my sworde, and mine hande take holde to do iustice, I wyl recompence vengeaunce on mine enemies, and wyll rewarde them that hate me. 42 I wyll make myne arrowes drunke with blood, and my sworde shal deuour fleshe, & that for the blood of the slayne, and for their captiuitie, sence the begynnyng of the wrath of the enemie. 43 Prayse ye heathen his people, for he wyll auenge the blood of his seruautes, and will auenge him of his aduersaries, and wyll be mercifull vnto his lande, and to his people.
• 1 Chr 6:49 : 49 But Aaron and his sonnes burnt incense vpon the aulter of burnt offering, and on the aulter of incense and were appoynted for all that was to do in the place most holy, and to make an attonement for them of Israel, according to all that Moyses the seruaunt of God had commaunded.
• 2 Chr 24:6 : 6 And the king called Iehoiada that was the chiefest, & sayd vnto him: Why requirest thou not of the Leuites to bring in out of Iuda and Hierusalem the collection of money, according to the commaundement of Moyses the seruaunt of the Lorde, and of the congregation of Israel for the tabernacle of witnesse?
• Ps 85:10-11 : 10 Mercy and trueth are met together: righteousnes and peace haue kissed eche other. 11 Trueth shall bud out of the earth: and ryghteousnes shall looke downe from heauen.
• Ps 99:4 : 4 Thou hast ordeyned all thynges accordyng to equitie: thou hast caused iudgement and iustice to be in Iacob.
• Ps 100:5 : 5 For God is gratious, his mercie is euerlastyng: and his trueth endureth from generation to generation.
• Isa 45:21 : 21 Drawe nye, come hyther, and let them aske counsaile one at another, and shew foorth what is he that told this before? or who spake of it euer since the beginning? haue not I the Lorde done it? without whom there is none other God, the true God and sauiour, and there is els none but I.
• Dan 6:20 : 20 Now as he came nye vnto the denne, he cryed with a pitious voyce vnto Daniel, yea the king spake and saide vnto Daniel: O Daniel, thou seruaut of the liuing God, is not thy God whom thou seruest alway, able to deliuer thee from ye lions?
• John 1:17 : 17 For the lawe was geuen by Moyses: but grace and trueth came by Iesus Christe.
• Rev 11:17 : 17 Saying: we geue thee thankes, O Lorde God almyghtie, which art, and wast, and art to come: for thou hast receaued thy great myght, & hast raigned.
• Rev 4:8 : 8 And the foure beastes had eche one of them sixe wynges about hym, and they were full of eyes within: and they had no rest day neither night, saying: Holy, holy, holy Lorde God almightie, which was, and is, and is to come.
• Rev 5:9-9 : 9 And they song a newe song, saying: Thou art worthy to take the booke and to open the seales therof: for thou wast kylled, and hast redeemed vs to God by thy blood, out of al kinrede, and tongue, and people, and nation: 10 And hast made vs vnto our God kinges and priestes, and we shall raigne on the earth. 11 And I beheld, and I heard the voyce of many angels about the throne, and about the beastes and the elders, and hearde thousande thousandes, 12 Saying with a loude voyce: Worthy is the lambe that was kylled to receaue power, and richesse, and wisedome, and strength, and honor, and glorie, and blessyng. 13 And all the creatures whiche are in heauen, and on the earth, and vnder the earth, and in the sea, and all that are in them, hearde I, saying: Blessyng, honour, glorie, and power be vnto hym that sitteth vpon the throne, and vnto the lambe for euermore.
• Rev 7:10-11 : 10 And cryed with a loude voyce, saying: Saluation be ascribed to hym that sitteth vpon the throne of our God, and vnto the lambe. 11 And all the angels stoode in the compasse of the throne, and of the elders, & of the foure beastes, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshypped God,
• Rev 14:3 : 3 And they song as it were a newe song before the throne, and before the foure beastes, & the elders, and no man coulde learne that song, but the hundreth and fourtie & foure thousande, which were redeemed from the earth.
• Rev 14:8 : 8 And there folowed another angell, saying: Babylon is fallen is fallen that great citie, for she made all nations drinke of the wyne of the wrath of her fornication.
• Dan 9:11 : 11 Yea all Israel haue transgressed and gone backe from thy lawe, so that they haue not hearkened vnto thy voyce: wherefore the curse and oth that is written in the lawe of Moyses the seruaunt of God, against whom we haue offended, is poured vpon vs.
• Mic 7:20 : 20 Thou wilt perfourme to Iacob thy trueth, and thy mercie to Abraham, like as thou hast sworne vnto our fathers in olde time.
• Zeph 3:5 : 5 But the iust Lord that doth no vnright, was in the middes therof, euery morning shewing them his lawe clearly, and ceassed not: but the vngodly will not learne to be ashamed.
• Dan 4:2-3 : 2 I thought it good to shewe the signes & marueylous workes that the hie God hath wrought vpo me. 3 O how great are his signes, and howe mightie are his wonders? his kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, & his dominion is fro generation to generation.
• Ps 105:5 : 5 Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done: his wonders, and the iudgementes of his mouth.
• Ps 145:6 : 6 I wyll also declare thy greatnesse: so that men shall speake of the force of thy terrible actes.
• Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For vnto vs a chylde is borne, and vnto vs a sonne is geuen, vpon his shoulder doth the rule lye, and he is called with his owne name wonderfull, the geuer of counsell, the mightie God, the euerlasting father, the prince of peace. 7 He shall make no ende to encrease the rule & peace, and shall sit vpon the seate of Dauid, and in his kingdome, to order the same, and to stablishe it with equitie and righteousnesse from hence foorth for euermore: This shall the zeale of the Lorde of hoastes bring to passe.
• Rev 17:14 : 14 These shall fyght with the lambe, and the lambe shall ouercome them: For he is Lorde of Lordes, and Kyng of Kynges, and they that are on his syde, are called, and chosen, and faythfull.
• Neh 9:14 : 14 And declaredst vnto them thy holy Sabbath, and commaundedst them preceptes, ordinaunces, and lawes, by the hande of Moyses thy seruaunt:
• Job 5:9 : 9 Whiche doth great thinges and vnsearcheable, and maruels without number.
• Ps 78:12 : 12 Marueylous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the fielde of Zoan.
• Deut 34:5 : 5 So Moyses the seruaunt of the Lord dyed there in the lande of Moab, accordyng to the worde of the Lorde.