Romans 9:28

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λόγον γὰρ συντελῶν, καὶ συντέμνων ἐν δικαιοσυνῃ: ὅτι λόγον συντετμημένον ποιήσει Κύριος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

Transliteration

For logon syntelōn, and syntemnōn in dikaiosynē: because logon syntetmēmenon poiēsei Kyrios upon the gēs.

Grammar Details

• *logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - word/account
• *syntelōn*: present, participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - completing/finishing
• *syntemnōn*: present, participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - cutting short
• *dikaiosynē*: dative, feminine, singular - righteousness
• *syntetmēmenon*: perfect, participle, passive, accusative, masculine, singular - having been cut short
• *poiēsei*: future, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - will make/do
• *Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *gēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

• *logon*: word/account/matter
• *syntelōn*: completing/finishing/concluding
• *syntemnōn*: cutting short/executing quickly
• *dikaiosynē*: righteousness/justice
• *syntetmēmenon*: having been cut short/decisive/final
• *poiēsei*: will make/do/execute
• *gēs*: earth/land/world

Referenced Verses

• Ps 9:8 : 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
• Ps 65:5 : 5 By terrible things{H8737)} in righteousness wilt thou answer{H8799)} us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
• Isa 5:16 : 16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
• Isa 10:23 : 23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
• Isa 28:22 : 22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
• Isa 30:12-14 : 12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: 13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
• Dan 9:26-27 : 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
• Matt 24:21 : 21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
• Acts 17:31 : 31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
• Rev 19:11 : 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.