Deuteronomy 28:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The LORD will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְקֽ͏ִימְךָ֨ יְהוָ֥ה לוֹ֙ לְעַ֣ם קָד֔וֹשׁ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר נִֽשְׁבַּֽע־לָ֑ךְ כִּ֣י תִשְׁמֹ֗ר אֶת־מִצְוֺת֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ וְהָלַכְתָּ֖ בִּדְרָכָֽיו׃

Transliteration

Yĕqîmĕkā YHWH to lô for ʿam qādôš as kaʾăšer nišbaʿ-to lāk if tišmōr ʾet-miṣwōt YHWH ʾĕlōhêkā and you have hālaktā in dĕrākāyw.

Grammar Details

• *Yĕqîmĕkā*: imperfect, Hiphil, 3rd masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - he will establish you
• *YHWH*: proper name - the LORD
• *lô*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - to himself
• *ʿam*: masculine singular construct - people of
• *qādôš*: masculine singular adjective - holy
• *kaʾăšer*: conjunction - as/just as
• *nišbaʿ*: perfect, Niphal, 3rd masculine singular - he has sworn
• *lāk*: preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - to you
• *tišmōr*: imperfect, Qal, 2nd masculine singular - you will keep
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *miṣwōt*: feminine plural construct - commandments of
• *ʾĕlōhêkā*: masculine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your God
• *hālaktā*: perfect, consecutive, Qal, 2nd masculine singular - and you will walk
• *dĕrākāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his ways

Word Meanings

• *Yĕqîmĕkā*: establish you/raise you up/confirm you
• *ʿam qādôš*: holy people/set-apart nation
• *tišmōr*: keep/observe/guard
• *hālaktā* in *dĕrākāyw*: walk in his ways/follow his paths [metaphor for obeying]

Referenced Verses

• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, 6 and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites.”
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.
• Deut 13:17 : 17 You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. Then the LORD will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.
• Deut 26:18-19 : 18 And today the LORD has declared you to be his special people(as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments. 19 Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
• Gen 17:7 : 7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
• Deut 7:8 : 8 Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the LORD brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
• Deut 29:12-13 : 12 so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the LORD your God is making with you today. 13 Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• Ps 87:5 : 5 But it is said of Zion’s residents,“Each one of these was born in her, and the Most High makes her secure.”
• Isa 1:26 : 26 I will reestablish honest judges as in former times, wise advisers as in earlier days. Then you will be called,‘The Just City, Faithful Town.’”
• Isa 62:12 : 12 They will be called,“The Holy People, the Ones Protected by the LORD.” You will be called,“Sought After, City Not Abandoned.”
• Jer 11:5 : 5 Then I will keep the promise I swore on oath to your ancestors to give them a land flowing with milk and honey.” That is the very land that you still live in today.’” And I responded,“Amen! Let it be so, LORD!”
• 2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.
• Heb 6:13-18 : 13 Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself, 14 saying,“Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.” 15 And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise. 16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and the oath serves as a confirmation to end all dispute. 17 In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath, 18 so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.
• 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy. 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,