Psalms 22:31

Authorized King James Version (1611)

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done [this].

📖 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 generation to come might know [them, even] the children [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:
• Ps 86:9 : 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
• Ps 102:18 : 18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
• Ps 145:4-7 : 4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. 5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works. 6 And [men] shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. 7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
• Isa 44:3-5 : 3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: 4 And they shall spring up [as] among the grass, as willows by the water courses. 5 One shall say, I [am] the LORD'S; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe [with] his hand unto the LORD, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.
• Isa 49:21-23 : 21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where [had] they [been]? 22 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in [their] arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon [their] shoulders. 23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with [their] face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
• Isa 54:1 : 1 ¶ Sing, O barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [are] the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
• Isa 60:4 : 4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at [thy] side.
• Isa 66:7-9 : 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? [or] shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. 9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut [the womb]? saith thy God.
• Rom 1:17 : 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
• Rom 3:21-25 : 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
• Rom 5:19-21 : 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
• Ps 40:9 : 9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.