Psalms 145:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דּ֣וֹר לְ֭דוֹר יְשַׁבַּ֣ח מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ וּגְב֖וּרֹתֶ֣יךָ יַגִּֽידוּ

Transliteration

Dôr lᵊdôr yᵊšabbaḥ maʿăśeyḵā and your ûgᵊbûrōteyḵā yaggîdû

Grammar Details

• *Dôr lᵊdôr*: noun masculine singular + preposition + noun masculine singular - generation to generation
• *yᵊšabbaḥ*: Piel imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - will praise
• *maʿăśeyḵā*: noun masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your works
• *ûgᵊbûrōteyḵā*: conjunction + noun feminine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and your mighty acts
• *yaggîdû*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will declare/tell

Word Meanings

• *Dôr lᵊdôr*: generation to generation/age to age
• *yᵊšabbaḥ*: will praise/commend/laud
• *maʿăśeyḵā*: your works/deeds/acts
• *ûgᵊbûrōteyḵā*: and your mighty acts/powers/strength
• *yaggîdû*: they will declare/tell/proclaim

Referenced Verses

• Isa 38:19 : 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I [do] this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
• Exod 12:26-27 : 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? 27 That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
• Deut 6:7 : 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
• Josh 4:21-24 : 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What [mean] these stones? 22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: 24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it [is] mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.
• Ps 44:1-2 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, [what] work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. 2 [How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
• Ps 71:18 : 18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and] thy power to every one [that] is to come.
• Ps 78:3-7 : 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide [them] from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 That the generation to come might know [them, even] the children [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
• Exod 13:14-15 : 14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What [is] this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: 15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.