Psalms 115:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He will bless his loyal followers, both young and old.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְ֭בָרֵךְ יִרְאֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה הַ֝קְּטַנִּ֗ים עִם־הַגְּדֹלִֽים׃

Transliteration

Yĕḇārēḵ yirʾê YHWH, the-qĕṭannim with-the-gĕḏōlîm.

Grammar Details

• *Yĕḇārēḵ*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular, 'he will bless'
• *yirʾê*: adjective, masculine plural construct, 'fearers of'
• *YHWH*: divine name
• הַקְּטַנִּים: definite article + adjective, masculine plural, 'the small ones'
• עִם: preposition, 'with'
• הַגְּדֹלִים: definite article + adjective, masculine plural, 'the great ones'

Word Meanings

• *Yĕḇārēḵ*: will bless/will cause to prosper
• *yirʾê*: fearers of/those who fear
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *qĕṭannim*: small ones/little ones/young
• *gĕḏōlîm*: great ones/important ones/elders

Referenced Verses

• Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise the LORD! How blessed is the one who obeys the LORD, who takes great delight in keeping his commands.
• Ps 128:1 : 1 A song of ascents. How blessed is every one of the LORD’s loyal followers, each one who keeps his commands!
• Rev 11:18 : 18 The nations were enraged, but your wrath has come, and the time has come for the dead to be judged, and the time has come to give to your servants, the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and to those who revere your name, both small and great, and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
• Rev 19:5 : 5 Then a voice came from the throne, saying:“Praise our God all you his servants, and all you who fear him, both the small and the great!”
• Luke 1:50 : 50 from generation to generation he is merciful to those who fear him.
• Acts 13:26 : 26 Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.
• Acts 26:22 : 22 I have experienced help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said was going to happen:
• Col 3:11 : 11 Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.
• Ps 128:4-5 : 4 Yes indeed, the man who fears the LORD will be blessed in this way. 5 May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you might see Jerusalem prosper all the days of your life,
• Mal 3:16-17 : 16 Then those who respected the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD took notice. A scroll was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the LORD and honored his name. 17 “They will belong to me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
• Mal 4:2 : 2 But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.
• Ps 29:11 : 11 The LORD gives his people strength; the LORD grants his people security.
• Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened– the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.