Psalms 145:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Generation to generation praiseth Thy works, And Thy mighty acts they declare.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דּ֣וֹר לְ֭דוֹר יְשַׁבַּ֣ח מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ וּגְב֖וּרֹתֶ֣יךָ יַגִּֽידוּ

Transliteration

Dôr lᵊdôr yᵊšabbaḥ maʿăśeyḵā and your ûgᵊbûrōteyḵā yaggîdû

Grammar Details

• *Dôr lᵊdôr*: noun masculine singular + preposition + noun masculine singular - generation to generation
• *yᵊšabbaḥ*: Piel imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - will praise
• *maʿăśeyḵā*: noun masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your works
• *ûgᵊbûrōteyḵā*: conjunction + noun feminine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and your mighty acts
• *yaggîdû*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will declare/tell

Word Meanings

• *Dôr lᵊdôr*: generation to generation/age to age
• *yᵊšabbaḥ*: will praise/commend/laud
• *maʿăśeyḵā*: your works/deeds/acts
• *ûgᵊbûrōteyḵā*: and your mighty acts/powers/strength
• *yaggîdû*: they will declare/tell/proclaim

Referenced Verses

• Isa 38:19 : 19 The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.
• Exod 12:26-27 : 26 and it hath come to pass when your sons say unto you, What `is' this service ye have? 27 that ye have said, A sacrifice of passover it `is' to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, in His smiting the Egyptians, and our houses He delivered.'
• Deut 6:7 : 7 and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
• Josh 4:21-24 : 21 And he speaketh unto the sons of Israel, saying, `When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What `are' these stones? 22 then ye have caused your sons to know, saying, On dry land Israel passed over this Jordan; 23 because Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan at your presence, till your passing over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red Sea which He dried up at our presence till our passing over; 24 so that all the people of the land do know the hand of Jehovah that it `is' strong, so that ye have reverenced Jehovah your God all the days.'
• Ps 44:1-2 : 1 To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old. 2 Thou, `with' Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.
• Ps 71:18 : 18 And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.
• Ps 78:3-7 : 3 That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us. 4 We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done. 5 And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons. 6 So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons, 7 And place in God their confidence, And forget not the doings of God, But keep His commands.
• Exod 13:14-15 : 14 `And it hath been, when thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What `is' this? that thou hast said unto him, By strength of hand hath Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from a house of servants; 15 yea, it cometh to pass, when Pharaoh hath been pained to send us away, that Jehovah doth slay every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of man even unto the first-born of beast; therefore I am sacrificing to Jehovah all opening a womb who `are' males, and every first-born of my sons I ransom;