What Does 1 Chronicles 16:23 Mean?
Sing to the LORD, all the earth; bring good news of his deliverance from day to day.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.THE KEY
Deliverance is not a private, finished event here; it is good news carried from day to day and sung across the whole earth.
THE MEANING
The whole earth is called into song, and the LORD’s deliverance is announced day after day. This verse makes deliverance a living reality spoken into the open, moving from constriction toward spaciousness.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that deliverance belongs only to a private moment in the past: here it is proclaimed anew, from day to day.
THE ROOT
יְשׁוּעָתוֹ
yeshuato
GROWS FROM
ישע
Deliver, rescue, bring out of danger and constriction.
The verse’s יְשׁוּעָתוֹ (yeshuato, his deliverance) belongs to the root יָשַׁע (yasha, to deliver). That word family carries movement out of the narrow and into room; the verse makes that deliverance something the whole earth can sing about.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: Deliverance, rescue.
יְשׁוּעָה
This is the noun beneath the verse’s “his salvation,” showing the word as an act of being brought out.
Yeshua: A name from the same deliverance word family.
יֵשׁוּעַ
The name carries the nature of deliverance, giving the verse’s proclaimed reality a personal form.
בַּשְּׂרוּ
basru
GROWS FROM
בשר
Announce, herald news.
“bring good news” in this verse is basru. English “shew forth” can sound like simply displaying something; בַּשְּׂרוּ (basru, announce) makes the action a proclamation. The deliverance is news carried outward and repeated from one day to the next.
ALSO GROWS
besorah: Good news, a welcome announcement.
בְּשׂוֹרָה
It shows that the daily telling is news of deliverance, not merely a display.
mevaser: A herald or bearer of news.
מְבַשֵּׂר
This branch gives the announcement a voice that carries the news beyond itself.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance is proclaimed publicly through song and announcement, widening from one voice to many.
Sing to the LORD; bless his name; bring good news of his deliverance from day to day.How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the one who brings good news, who makes wholeness heard, who brings good news of good, who makes deliverance heard, who says to Zion, Your God governs.And they cry out with a loud voice, saying, Deliverance to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!THE THREAD
Look, God is my deliverance. I will lean my full weight and not tremble, for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song, and he has become my deliverance.This verse uses the same Hebrew word family, יְשׁוּעָה (yeshuah, deliverance). It names the LORD as strength and song, opening the current verse’s proclamation further: deliverance itself becomes something sung.
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