What Does Psalm 102:15 Mean in the King James?
So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The LORD’s name is nature made known, and its weight reaches beyond every nation and throne.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s nature is present and recognizable across peoples, and its weight reaches rulers as well as ordinary lives. No nation or throne stands outside the presence that gives reality its deepest measure.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that political power is the world’s highest authority: kings themselves encounter a weight greater than their own.
THE ROOT
כְּבוֹדֶךָ
kevodekha
GROWS FROM
כבד
k-b-d
To be heavy, to carry weight.
The word translated “glory” grows from the root for heaviness: the LORD’s glory is the weight of a presence that cannot be treated as small. The verse places this weight before kings, whose rank does not diminish it.
ALSO GROWS
kaved: Heavy, weighty.
כָּבֵד
This adjective shares the root, showing how glory and weight belong to the same word-family.
kibbed: Honored, treated as weighty.
כִּבֵּד
To honor is to recognize weight; the kings encounter the LORD’s glory as a reality worthy of that recognition.
יִירְאוּ
yirʾu
GROWS FROM
ירא
y-r-ʾ
To fear, to stand in awe.
The verb can carry fear and awe; with the LORD as its object, it is the response of encountering what exceeds ordinary rank. It attaches this response to the LORD’s shem (שֵׁם, shem: name as nature), so the name is known through the character it reveals.
ALSO GROWS
yirʾah: Awe, fear.
יִרְאָה
This noun names the response the verse describes among the nations.
noraʾ: Awe-inspiring, fearsome.
נוֹרָא
This form describes what evokes awe, echoing the LORD’s presence as it reaches peoples and rulers.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s revealed nature draws nations and rulers into recognition of a greater reality.
All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.THE THREAD
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.The “glory” here is kavod (כָּבוֹד, kavod: weight), the same Hebrew word as in Psalm 102:15. Habakkuk opens the scale of that weight: it fills the earth and becomes known as widely as waters cover the sea.
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