PSA 119

Psalm 119:152

WEB

Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever.

BSB

Long ago I learned from Your testimonies that You have established them forever.

KJV

Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

Matthew Henry

Verse 152

Psalms 119:152

This confirms what he had said in the close of the foregoing verses, All thy commandments are truth; he means the covenant, the word which God has commanded to a thousand generations. This is firm, as true as truth itself. For, 1. God has founded it so; he has framed it for a perpetuity. Such is the constitution of it, and so well ordered is it in all things, that it cannot but be sure. The promises are founded for ever, so that when heaven and earth shall have passed away every iota and tittle of the promise shall stand firm, Co2 1:20. 2. David had found it so, both by a work of God's grace upon his heart (begetting in him a full persuasion of the truth of God's word and enabling him to rely upon it with a full satisfaction) and by the works of his providence on his behalf, fulfilling the promise beyond what he expected. Thus he knew of old, from the days of his youth, ever since he began to look towards God, that the word of God is what one may venture one's all upon. This assurance was confirmed by the observations and experiences of his own life all along, and of others that had gone before him in the ways of God. All that ever dealt with God, and trusted in him will own that they have found him faithful.

Cross-references: 2Cor 1:20

Hebrew interlinear

H6924

קֶדֶםqedem/keh'-dem/

n-m adv — front, fore part, East, antiquity, before, anciently, eastward

Derivation: or קֵדְמָה; from 6923;

the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)

KJV: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, × ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare 6926.

קֵ֫דֶם

adv — eastward

[קֵ֫דֶם], קֵ֫דְמָה adv. eastward, to, toward the E.

קֶ֫דֶם

n.[m.] — front

קֶ֫דֶם n.[m.] front, east, aforetime

1. loc.

a. front

b. East; elsewh. מִקּ׳ = eastward

2. temp., ancient time, aforetime:

a. הַרְרֵי ק׳ Dt 33:15 ancient mts.

b. בִּימֵי ק׳ ψ 44:2 in ancient days

c. מִקּ׳ from of old

d. ק׳ alone, as adv. anciently, of old

e. beginning

H3045

יָדַעyâdaʻ/yaw-dah'/

v — know, seeing, observation, care, recognition, instruction, designation, punishment

Derivation: a primitive root;

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.)

KJV: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-) awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, × could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-) norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, be learned, lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, × prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), × will be, wist, wit, wot.

יָדַע

vb — know

יָדַע 943 vb. know

Qal

1.

a. know, learn to know

b. perceive

c. perceive and see; find out and discern

d. discriminate, distinguish

e. know by experience

f. recognize, admit, acknowledge, confess

g. consider

h. not know = not expect

2. know a person, be acquainted with

3. know a person carnally, of sexual intercourse

4.

a. know how, to do a thing, be able to do it

b. be skilful in

5. abs. have knowledge, be wise

Niph.

1. be made known, be or become known, of things

2. make oneself known of pers.

3. be perceived

4. be instructed

Pi. cause to know

Pu. known

Hiph. make known, declare

Hoph. made known

Hithp. make oneself known

H5713

עֵדָהʻêdâh/ay-daw'/

n-f — testimony

Derivation: feminine of 5707 in its techn. sense;

testimony

KJV: testimony, witness. Compare 5712.

עֵדָה

n.f — testimonies

[עֵדָה] n.f. only pl. MT testimonies

עֵדָה

n.f — testimony

עֵדָה n.f. testimony, witness

H3588

כִּיkîy/kee/

conj — relative conjunction

Derivation: a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent;

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

KJV: and, (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), but, certainly, doubtless, else, even, except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, (al-) though, till, truly, until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.

כִּי

conj — that

כִּי conj. that, for, when

1. that

2.

a. Of time, when, of the past

b. elsewhere כִּי has a force approximating to if, though it usu. represents a case as more likely to occur than אִם

c. when or if, with a concessive force, i.e. though

3. Because, since

כִּי אם־

relative conjunction

כִּי אם־

1. each part. retaining its independent force, and relating to a different clause:

a. that if

b. for if

2. (About 140 t.) the two particles being closely conjoined, and relating to the same clause—

a. limiting the prec. clause, except

b. the if being neglected, and treated as pleonastic, so that the clause is no longer a limitation of the preceding clause but a contradiction of it: but rather, but

c. after an oath, surely

כִּי עַל כֵּן

forasmuch as

כִּי עַל כֵּן forasmuch as

H5769

עוֹלָםʻôwlâm/o-lawm'/

n-m — concealed, vanishing, out of mind, eternity, always

Derivation: or עֹלָם; from 5956;

properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always

KJV: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-)) ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world ( without end). Compare 5331, 5703.

עוֹלָם

n.m — long duration

עוֹלָם 439 n.m. long duration, antiquity, futurity

H3245

יָסַדyâçad/yaw-sad'/

v — set, found, sit, settle, consult

Derivation: a primitive root;

to set (literally or figuratively); intensively, to found; reflexively, to sit down together, i.e. settle, consult

KJV: appoint, take counsel, establish, (lay the, lay for a) found(-ation), instruct, lay, ordain, set, × sure.

יָסַד

vb — establish

יָסַד vb. establish, found, fix

Qal found, establish

Niph.

1. fix or seat themselves close together, sit in conclave

2. be founded

Pi.

1. found

2. establish

Pu. be founded, be laid, of a foundation

Hoph. be founded

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