Deuteronomy 28:9

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְקֽ͏ִימְךָ֨ יְהוָ֥ה לוֹ֙ לְעַ֣ם קָד֔וֹשׁ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר נִֽשְׁבַּֽע־לָ֑ךְ כִּ֣י תִשְׁמֹ֗ר אֶת־מִצְוֺת֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ וְהָלַכְתָּ֖ בִּדְרָכָֽיו׃

Transliteration

Yĕqîmĕkā YHWH to lô for ʿam qādôš as kaʾăšer nišbaʿ-to lāk if tišmōr ʾet-miṣwōt YHWH ʾĕlōhêkā and you have hālaktā in dĕrākāyw.

Grammar Details

• *Yĕqîmĕkā*: imperfect, Hiphil, 3rd masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - he will establish you
• *YHWH*: proper name - the LORD
• *lô*: preposition with 3rd masculine singular suffix - to himself
• *ʿam*: masculine singular construct - people of
• *qādôš*: masculine singular adjective - holy
• *kaʾăšer*: conjunction - as/just as
• *nišbaʿ*: perfect, Niphal, 3rd masculine singular - he has sworn
• *lāk*: preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - to you
• *tišmōr*: imperfect, Qal, 2nd masculine singular - you will keep
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *miṣwōt*: feminine plural construct - commandments of
• *ʾĕlōhêkā*: masculine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your God
• *hālaktā*: perfect, consecutive, Qal, 2nd masculine singular - and you will walk
• *dĕrākāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his ways

Word Meanings

• *Yĕqîmĕkā*: establish you/raise you up/confirm you
• *ʿam qādôš*: holy people/set-apart nation
• *tišmōr*: keep/observe/guard
• *hālaktā* in *dĕrākāyw*: walk in his ways/follow his paths [metaphor for obeying]

Referenced Verses

• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
• Deut 13:17 : 17 Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand; that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
• Deut 26:18-19 : 18 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments; 19 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• Gen 17:7 : 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
• Deut 7:8 : 8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
• Deut 29:12-13 : 12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day; 13 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
• Ps 87:5 : 5 Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her;" the Most High himself will establish her.
• Isa 1:26 : 26 I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, a faithful town.'
• Isa 62:12 : 12 They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
• Jer 11:5 : 5 that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, Yahweh.
• 2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.
• Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, 14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you." 15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. 17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath; 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
• 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: 10 who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;