Psalms 102:18

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פָּ֭נָה אֶל־תְּפִלַּ֣ת הָעַרְעָ֑ר וְלֹֽא־בָ֝זָ֗ה אֶת־תְּפִלָּתָֽם׃

Transliteration

pānâ to-tᵉp̄illat hāʿarʿār and not-ḇāzâ ʾet-tᵉp̄illātām

Grammar Details

• *pānâ*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he has turned
• *ʾel*: preposition - to/toward
• *tᵉp̄illat*: noun, feminine singular construct - prayer of
• *hāʿarʿār*: article + noun, masculine singular - the destitute/naked one
• *wᵉ*: conjunction - and
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *ḇāzâ*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he has despised
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *tᵉp̄illātām*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their prayer

Word Meanings

• *pānâ*: he has turned/regarded/paid attention to
• *tᵉp̄illat*: prayer/supplication of
• *hāʿarʿār*: the destitute/naked/stripped/helpless one
• *ḇāzâ*: he has despised/disdained/rejected
• *tᵉp̄illātām*: their prayer/supplication

Referenced Verses

• Rom 15:4 : 4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we thugh patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
• 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
• Ps 22:30-31 : 30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. 31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
• Isa 43:21 : 21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
• Isa 65:17-19 : 17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
• Dan 9:2 : 2 In the first year of his reign I niel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
• John 20:31 : 31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
• Ps 45:16-17 : 16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. 17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.
• Ps 48:13 : 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
• 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 78:4-6 : 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:
• Isa 43:7 : 7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
• 2 Cor 5:17-18 : 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
• Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
• 2 Tim 3:16-17 : 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
• 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
• 2 Pet 1:15 : 15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
• Exod 17:14 : 14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
• Deut 31:19-30 : 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. 22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. 24 And it came to pass, when Moses had ma an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 That Moses command the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, 26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the si of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my ath? 28 Gather unto me all the elrs of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. 29 For I know that after my ath ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn asi from the way which I have command you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were end.
• Job 19:23-24 : 23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!