Psalms 61:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יָמִ֣ים עַל־יְמֵי־מֶ֣לֶךְ תּוֹסִ֑יף שְׁ֝נוֹתָ֗יו כְּמוֹ־דֹ֥ר וָדֹֽר׃

Transliteration

yāmîm upon-yəmê-meleḵ tôsîp šənôtāyw like-dōr wādōr

Grammar Details

• *yāmîm*: noun, masculine, plural - days
• *yəmê-meleḵ*: construct phrase - days of a king
• *tôsîp*: verb, imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will add
• *šənôtāyw*: noun, feminine, plural with 3rd person masculine singular possessive suffix - his years
• *dōr wādōr*: idiomatic expression - generation and generation

Word Meanings

• *yāmîm*: days/lifetime
• *tôsîp*: you will add/increase/prolong
• *dōr wādōr*: generation to generation/many generations/throughout generations

Referenced Verses

• Ps 40:11 : 11 Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
• Ps 41:12 : 12 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, And set me in your presence forever.
• Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, He rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
• Prov 20:28 : 28 Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.
• Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Hosts will perform this.
• Mic 7:20 : 20 You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, As you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
• Luke 1:33 : 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom."
• Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy, 55 As he spoke to our fathers, To Abraham and his seed forever."
• Heb 7:21-25 : 21 (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, According to the order of Melchizedek'". 22 By so much has Jesus become the collateral of a better covenant. 23 Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death. 24 But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable. 25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.
• Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
• Ps 43:3 : 3 Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
• Gen 24:27 : 27 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
• Gen 32:10 : 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.