Psalms 145:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

One generation will praise your deeds to another, and tell about your mighty acts!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דּ֣וֹר לְ֭דוֹר יְשַׁבַּ֣ח מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ וּגְב֖וּרֹתֶ֣יךָ יַגִּֽידוּ

Transliteration

Dôr lᵊdôr yᵊšabbaḥ maʿăśeyḵā and your ûgᵊbûrōteyḵā yaggîdû

Grammar Details

• *Dôr lᵊdôr*: noun masculine singular + preposition + noun masculine singular - generation to generation
• *yᵊšabbaḥ*: Piel imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - will praise
• *maʿăśeyḵā*: noun masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your works
• *ûgᵊbûrōteyḵā*: conjunction + noun feminine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and your mighty acts
• *yaggîdû*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will declare/tell

Word Meanings

• *Dôr lᵊdôr*: generation to generation/age to age
• *yᵊšabbaḥ*: will praise/commend/laud
• *maʿăśeyḵā*: your works/deeds/acts
• *ûgᵊbûrōteyḵā*: and your mighty acts/powers/strength
• *yaggîdû*: they will declare/tell/proclaim

Referenced Verses

• Isa 38:19 : 19 The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.
• Exod 12:26-27 : 26 When your children ask you,‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’– 27 then you will say,‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.’” The people bowed down low to the ground,
• Deut 6:7 : 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.
• Josh 4:21-24 : 21 He told the Israelites,“When your children someday ask their fathers,‘What do these stones represent?’ 22 explain to your children,‘Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.’ 23 For the LORD your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the LORD your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it. 24 He has done this so all the nations of the earth might recognize the LORD’s power and so you might always obey the LORD your God.”
• Ps 44:1-2 : 1 For the music director; by the Korahites, a well-written song. O God, we have clearly heard; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in ancient times. 2 You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.
• Ps 71:18 : 18 Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me, until I tell the next generation about your strength, and those coming after me about your power.
• Ps 78:3-7 : 3 What we have heard and learned– that which our ancestors have told us– 4 we will not hide from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the LORD’s praiseworthy acts, about his strength and the amazing things he has done. 5 He established a rule in Jacob; he set up a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors to make his deeds known to their descendants, 6 so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them. 7 Then they will place their confidence in God. They will not forget the works of God, and they will obey his commands.
• Exod 13:14-15 : 14 In the future, when your son asks you‘What is this?’ you are to tell him,‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery. 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’