Romans 9:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.”

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λόγον γὰρ συντελῶν, καὶ συντέμνων ἐν δικαιοσυνῃ: ὅτι λόγον συντετμημένον ποιήσει Κύριος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

Transliteration

For logon syntelōn, and syntemnōn in dikaiosynē: because logon syntetmēmenon poiēsei Kyrios upon the gēs.

Grammar Details

• *logon*: accusative, masculine, singular - word/account
• *syntelōn*: present, participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - completing/finishing
• *syntemnōn*: present, participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - cutting short
• *dikaiosynē*: dative, feminine, singular - righteousness
• *syntetmēmenon*: perfect, participle, passive, accusative, masculine, singular - having been cut short
• *poiēsei*: future, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - will make/do
• *Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *gēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

• *logon*: word/account/matter
• *syntelōn*: completing/finishing/concluding
• *syntemnōn*: cutting short/executing quickly
• *dikaiosynē*: righteousness/justice
• *syntetmēmenon*: having been cut short/decisive/final
• *poiēsei*: will make/do/execute
• *gēs*: earth/land/world

Referenced Verses

• Ps 9:8 : 8 He judges the world fairly; he makes just legal decisions for the nations.
• Ps 65:5 : 5 You answer our prayers by performing awesome acts of deliverance, O God, our savior. All the ends of the earth trust in you, as well as those living across the wide seas.
• 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 10:23 : 23 The Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.
• Isa 28:22 : 22 So now, do not mock, or your chains will become heavier! For I have heard a message about decreed destruction, from the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, against the entire land.
• Isa 30:12-14 : 12 For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says:“You have rejected this message; you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, and rely on that kind of behavior. 13 So this sin will become your downfall. You will be like a high wall that bulges and cracks and is ready to collapse; it crumbles suddenly, in a flash. 14 It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”
• Dan 9:26-27 : 26 Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. As for the city and the sanctuary, the people of the coming prince will destroy them. But his end will come speedily like a flood. Until the end of the war that has been decreed there will be destruction. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one week. But in the middle of that week he will bring sacrifices and offerings to a halt. On the wing of abominations will come one who destroys, until the decreed end is poured out on the one who destroys.”
• Matt 24:21 : 21 For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.
• Acts 17:31 : 31 because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
• Rev 19:11 : 11 The Son of God Goes to War Then I saw heaven opened and here came a white horse! The one riding it was called“Faithful” and“True,” and with justice he judges and goes to war.