Psalms 22:31

Geneva Bible (1560)

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shall be borne, because he hath done it.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זֶ֥רַע יַֽעַבְדֶ֑נּוּ יְסֻפַּ֖ר לַֽאדֹנָ֣י לַדּֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

zeraʿ yaʿabdennû yəsuppar to-ʾădōnāy to-the-dôr

Grammar Details

• *zeraʿ*: noun, masculine singular - 'seed/offspring'
• *yaʿabdennû*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular object suffix - 'will serve him'
• *yəsuppar*: verb, pual imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'it will be recounted'
• *ʾădōnāy*: divine title - 'Lord'
• *dôr*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - 'the generation'

Word Meanings

• *zeraʿ*: seed/offspring/descendants
• *yaʿabdennû*: will serve him/minister to him/worship him
• *yəsuppar*: it will be recounted/told/declared
• *dôr*: generation/age/period

Referenced Verses

• Ps 78:6 : 6 That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:
• Ps 86:9 : 9 All nations, whome thou hast made, shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, & shall glorifie thy Name.
• Ps 102:18 : 18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people, which shalbe created, shall prayse the Lord.
• Ps 145:4-7 : 4 Generation shal praise thy works vnto generation, and declare thy power. 5 I wil meditate of the beautie of thy glorious maiestie, and thy wonderfull workes, 6 And they shall speake of the power of thy fearefull actes, and I will declare thy greatnes. 7 They shall breake out into the mention of thy great goodnes, and shall sing aloude of thy righteousnesse.
• Isa 44:3-5 : 3 For I will powre water vpon the thirstie, and floods vpon the drie grounde: I will powre my Spirit vpon thy seede, and my blessing vpon thy buddes. 4 And they shal grow as among the grasse, and as the willowes by the riuers of waters. 5 One shall say, I am the Lordes: another shalbe called by the name of Iaakob: and another shall subscribe with his hand vnto the Lord, and name himselfe by the name of Israel.
• Isa 49:21-23 : 21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten mee these, seeing I am baren and desolate, a captiue and a wanderer to and fro? And who hath nourished them? Beholde, I was left alone: whence are these? 22 Thus sayeth the Lord God, Beholde, I will lift vp mine hande to the Gentiles and set vp my stadart to the people, and they shall bring thy sonnes in their armes: and thy daughters shall be caried vpon their shoulders. 23 And Kings shalbe thy nourcing fathers, and Queenes shalbe thy nources: they shall worship thee with their faces towarde the earth, and licke vp the dust of thy feete: and thou shalt knowe that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that waite for me.
• Isa 54:1 : 1 Reioyce, O barren that diddest not beare: breake forth into ioy and reioyce, thou that diddest not trauaile with childe: for the desolate hath moe children then the married wife, sayeth the Lorde.
• Isa 60:4 : 4 Lift vp thine eyes round about, & beholde: all these are gathered, and come to thee: thy sonnes shall come from farre, and thy daughters shalbe nourished at thy side.
• Isa 66:7-9 : 7 Before she trauailed, she brought foorth: and before her paine came, she was deliuered of a man childe. 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seene such things? shall ye earth be brought forth in one day? or shall a nation be borne at once? for assoone as Zion trauailed, she brought foorth her children. 9 Shall I cause to trauaile, and not bring forth? shall I cause to bring forth, and shall be baren, saith thy God?
• Rom 1:17 : 17 For by it the righteousnesse of God is reueiled from faith to faith: as it is written, The iust shall liue by faith.
• Rom 3:21-25 : 21 But nowe is the righteousnesse, of God made manifest without the Lawe, hauing witnes of the Lawe and of the Prophets, 22 To wit, the righteousnesse of God by the faith of Iesus Christ, vnto all, and vpon all that beleeue. 23 For there is no difference: for all haue sinned, and are depriued of the glorie of God, 24 And are iustified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus, 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousnes, by the forgiuenesse of the sinnes that are passed,
• Rom 5:19-21 : 19 For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners, so by that obedience of that one shall many also be made righteous. 20 Moreouer the Law entred thereupon that the offence shoulde abound: neuerthelesse, where sinne abounded, there grace abounded much more: 21 That as sinne had reigned vnto death, so might grace also reigne by righteousnesse vnto eternall life, through Iesus Christ our Lord.
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For he hath made him to be sinne for vs, which knewe no sinne, that we should be made the righteousnesse of God in him.
• Ps 40:9 : 9 I haue declared thy righteousnesse in the great Congregation: loe, I will not refraine my lippes: O Lord, thou knowest.