Psalms 99:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Praise the LORD our God! Worship on his holy hill, for the LORD our God is holy!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רֽוֹמְמ֡וּ יְה֘וָ֤ה אֱלֹהֵ֗ינוּ וְ֭הִֽשְׁתַּחֲווּ לְהַ֣ר קָדְשׁ֑וֹ כִּֽי־קָ֝ד֗וֹשׁ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

Transliteration

rôməmû YHWH ʾĕlōhênû wə-hištaḥăwû to-har qādšô kî-qādôš YHWH ʾĕlōhênû

Grammar Details

• *rôməmû*: polel imperative, 2nd person masculine plural - exalt
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *ʾĕlōhênû*: common noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person plural suffix - our God
• *wə-hištaḥăwû*: conjunction + hishtaphel imperative, 2nd person masculine plural - and bow down/worship
• *har*: common noun, masculine singular construct with preposition *lə* - to mountain of
• *qādšô*: common noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his holiness
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *qādôš*: adjective, masculine singular - holy

Word Meanings

• *rôməmû*: exalt/lift up/praise
• *hištaḥăwû*: bow down/prostrate/worship
• *har* *qādšô*: his holy mountain/mountain of his holiness
• *qādôš*: holy/sacred/set apart

Referenced Verses

• Rev 4:8 : 8 Each one of the four living creatures had six wings and was full of eyes all around and inside. They never rest day or night, saying:“Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God, the All-Powerful, Who was and who is, and who is still to come!”
• 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 No one is holy like the LORD! There is no one other than you! There is no rock like our God!
• Ps 2:6 : 6 “I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill.”
• Ps 48:1-2 : 1 A song, a psalm by the Korahites. The LORD is great and certainly worthy of praise in the city of our God, his holy hill. 2 It is lofty and pleasing to look at, a source of joy to the whole earth. Mount Zion resembles the peaks of Zaphon; it is the city of the great king.
• Ps 87:1-3 : 1 Written by the Korahites; a psalm, a song. The LORD’s city is in the holy hills. 2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. 3 People say wonderful things about you, O city of God.(Selah)
• Ps 99:3 : 3 Let them praise your great and awesome name! He is holy!
• Ps 99:5 : 5 Praise the LORD our God! Worship before his footstool! He is holy!
• Isa 5:16 : 16 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies will be exalted when he punishes, the holy God’s authority will be recognized when he judges.
• Isa 6:3 : 3 They called out to one another,“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies! His majestic splendor fills the entire earth!”
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:“I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.
• Hab 1:12 : 12 Habakkuk Voices Some Concerns LORD, you have been active from ancient times; my sovereign God, you are immortal. LORD, you have made them your instrument of judgment. Protector, you have appointed them as your instrument of punishment.
• Luke 1:49 : 49 because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name;
• 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct, 16 for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”
• Rev 3:7 : 7 To the Church in Philadelphia“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open: