Psalms 103:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

to those who keep his covenant, who are careful to obey his commands.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י בְרִית֑וֹ וּלְזֹכְרֵ֥י פִ֝קֻּדָ֗יו לַעֲשׂוֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

To-šōmrê bərîtô û-to-zōkrê piqqūdāyw laʿăśôtām

Grammar Details

• *šōmrê*: qal participle masculine plural construct with prefixed preposition *lə* - to keepers of
• *bərîtô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his covenant
• *û*: conjunction - and
• *zōkrê*: qal participle masculine plural construct with prefixed preposition *lə* - to rememberers of
• *piqqūdāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his precepts
• *laʿăśôtām*: qal infinitive construct with prefixed preposition *lə* and 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to do them

Word Meanings

• *šōmrê*: keepers/observers/guardians
• *bərîtô*: his covenant/agreement/alliance
• *zōkrê*: rememberers/those who recall/those mindful of
• *piqqūdāyw*: his precepts/commandments/orders
• *laʿăśôtām*: to do them/to perform them/to fulfill them

Referenced Verses

• Deut 7:9 : 9 So realize that the LORD your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
• Ps 25:10 : 10 The LORD always proves faithful and reliable to those who follow the demands of his covenant.
• Acts 24:16 : 16 This is the reason I do my best to always have a clear conscience toward God and toward people.
• 2 Chr 34:31 : 31 The king stood by his pillar and renewed the covenant before the LORD, agreeing to follow the LORD and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, by carrying out the terms of this covenant recorded on this scroll.
• Heb 8:6-9 : 6 But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one. 8 But showing its fault, God says to them,“Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. 9 “It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord. 10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people. 11 “And there will be no need at all for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying,‘Know the Lord,’ since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 “For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.” 13 When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.
• Ps 119:9-9 : 9 ב(Bet) How can a young person maintain a pure life? By guarding it according to your instructions! 10 With all my heart I seek you. Do not allow me to stray from your commands! 11 In my heart I store up your words, so I might not sin against you.
• Ps 132:12 : 12 If your sons keep my covenant and the rules I teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”
• Prov 3:1 : 1 Exhortations to Seek Wisdom and Walk with the Lord My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
• Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
• Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.
• Gen 17:9-9 : 9 Then God said to Abraham,“As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. 10 This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
• Exod 19:5 : 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,
• Exod 24:8 : 8 So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
• Deut 4:23 : 23 Be on guard so that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he has made with you, and that you do not make an image of any kind, just as he has forbidden you.
• Deut 6:6-9 : 6 Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind, 7 and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up. 8 You should tie them as a reminder on your forearm and fasten them as symbols on your forehead. 9 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and gates.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 A Life Pleasing to God Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God(as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.