Psalms 100:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For good `is' Jehovah, to the age His kindness, And to generation and generation His faithfulness!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־ט֣וֹב יְ֭הֹוָה לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּ֑וֹ וְעַד־דֹּ֥ר וָ֝דֹ֗ר אֱמוּנָֽתוֹ׃

Transliteration

For-ṭôb YHWH, for-ʿôlām ḥasdô; and-to-dōr and-dōr ʾĕmûnātô

Grammar Details

• *ṭôb*: adjective, masculine singular - good
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - forever/eternity
• *ḥasdô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his steadfast love
• *dōr*: noun, masculine singular - generation
• *ʾĕmûnātô*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his faithfulness

Word Meanings

• *ṭôb*: good/pleasant/agreeable
• *ʿôlām*: forever/eternity/perpetuity/antiquity
• *ḥasdô*: his steadfast love/his lovingkindness/his mercy/his covenant loyalty
• *dōr*: generation/age/period
• *ʾĕmûnātô*: his faithfulness/his reliability/his trustworthiness

Referenced Verses

• Ps 106:1 : 1 Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, `is' His kindness.
• Ps 107:1 : 1 `Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age `is' His kindness:'
• Ps 36:5 : 5 O Jehovah, in the heavens `is' Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness `is' unto the clouds.
• Jer 33:11 : 11 Is a voice of joy and a voice of gladness, Voice of bridegroom, and voice of bride, The voice of those saying, Thank Jehovah of Hosts, for Jehovah `is' good, For His kindness `is' to the age, Who are bringing in thanksgiving to the house of Jehovah, For I turn back the captivity of the land, As at the first, said Jehovah.
• Ps 86:5 : 5 For Thou, Lord, `art' good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.
• Ps 136:1-9 : 1 Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age `is' His kindness. 2 Give ye thanks to the God of gods, For to the age `is' His kindness. 3 Give ye thanks to the Lord of lords, For to the age `is' His kindness. 4 To Him doing great wonders by Himself alone, For to the age `is' His kindness. 5 To Him making the heavens by understanding, For to the age `is' His kindness. 6 To Him spreading the earth over the waters, For to the age `is' His kindness. 7 To Him making great lights, For to the age `is' His kindness. 8 The sun to rule by day, For to the age `is' His kindness. 9 The moon and stars to rule by night, For to the age `is' His kindness. 10 To Him smiting Egypt in their first-born, For to the age `is' His kindness. 11 And bringing forth Israel from their midst, For to the age `is' His kindness. 12 By a strong hand, and a stretched-out-arm, For to the age `is' His kindness. 13 To Him cutting the sea of Suph into parts, For to the age `is' His kindness, 14 And caused Israel to pass through its midst, For to the age `is' His kindness, 15 And shook out Pharaoh and his force in the sea of Suph, For to the age `is' His kindness. 16 To Him leading His people in a wilderness, For to the age `is' His kindness. 17 To Him smiting great kings, For to the age `is' His kindness. 18 Yea, He doth slay honourable kings, For to the age `is' His kindness. 19 Even Sihon king of the Amorite, For to the age `is' His kindness. 20 And Og king of Bashan, For to the age `is' His kindness. 21 And He gave their land for inheritance, For to the age `is' His kindness. 22 An inheritance to Israel His servant, For to the age `is' His kindness. 23 Who in our lowliness hath remembered us, For to the age `is' His kindness. 24 And He delivereth us from our adversaries, For to the age `is' His kindness. 25 Giving food to all flesh, For to the age `is' His kindness. 26 Give ye thanks to the God of the heavens, For to the age `is' His kindness!
• Ps 118:1-4 : 1 Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age `is' His kindness. 2 I pray you, let Israel say, That, to the age `is' His kindness. 3 I pray you, let the house of Aaron say, That, to the age `is' His kindness. 4 I pray you, let those fearing Jehovah say, That, to the age `is' His kindness.
• Ps 119:68 : 68 Good Thou `art', and doing good, Teach me Thy statutes.
• 1 Chr 16:34 : 34 Give thanks to Jehovah, for good, For to the age, `is' His kindness,
• 2 Chr 5:13 : 13 yea, it cometh to pass, as one `are' trumpeters and singers, to sound -- one voice -- to praise and to give thanks to Jehovah, and at the lifting up of the sound with trumpets, and with cymbals, and with instruments of song, and at giving praise to Jehovah, for good, for to the age `is' His kindness, that the house is filled with a cloud -- the house of Jehovah,
• Ezra 3:11 : 11 And they respond in praising and in giving thanks to Jehovah, for good, for to the age His kindness `is' over Israel, and all the people have shouted -- a great shout -- in giving praise to Jehovah, because the house of Jehovah hath been founded.
• Exod 34:6-7 : 6 and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth, 7 keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third `generation', and on a fourth.'
• Deut 7:9 : 9 `And thou hast known that Jehovah thy God He `is' God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant, and the kindness, to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands -- to a thousand generations,
• Ps 89:1-2 : 1 An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth, 2 For I said, `To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'
• Ps 103:17 : 17 And the kindness of Jehovah `Is' from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons,
• Ps 52:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, `David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God `is' all the day.
• Ps 85:10 : 10 Kindness and truth have met, Righteousness and peace have kissed,
• Ps 119:90-91 : 90 To all generations Thy faithfulness, Thou didst establish earth, and it standeth. 91 According to Thine ordinances They have stood this day, for the whole `are' Thy servants.
• Ps 107:8 : 8 They confess to Jehovah His kindness, And His wonders to the sons of men.
• Jer 33:20-21 : 20 `Thus said Jehovah: If ye do break My covenant of the day, And My covenant of the night, So that they are not daily and nightly in their season, 21 Also My covenant is broken with David My servant, So that he hath not a son reigning on his throne, And with the Levites the priests, My ministers.
• Nah 1:7 : 7 Good `is' Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him.
• Luke 1:50 : 50 And His kindness `is' to generations of generations, To those fearing Him,
• Rom 15:8-9 : 8 And I say Jesus Christ to have become a ministrant of circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises to the fathers, 9 and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, `Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,'
• Titus 1:2 : 2 upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
• Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself, 14 saying, `Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;' 15 and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise; 16 for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation `is' the oath, 17 in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath, 18 that through two immutable things, in which `it is' impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before `us',