What Does Psalm 105:7 Mean in the King James?
He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
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
“Our God” and “all the earth” belong in one claim: divine belonging does not limit the reach of divine justice.
THE MEANING
The LORD is named as our God, and his judgments reach across the whole earth. The place you inhabit lies within that reach; no part of the world sits outside the justice he sees.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that God’s judgments are confined to one sacred place is undone here: they are in all the earth.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁפָּטִים
mishpatim
GROWS FROM
שפט
שפט (sh-p-t; shaphat): to judge, decide a case, or exercise judgment.
Mishpatim names the judgments formed from the act of judging; its plural places those decisions throughout the earth. The same root names both the judge and the judgment, joining God’s identity to the order expressed across the world.
ALSO GROWS
shaphat: To judge or decide a case.
שָׁפַט
This verb is the act beneath the judgments that the verse says reach all the earth.
shofet: A judge.
שֹׁפֵט
The judge and the judgments share the same root, linking who God is with the justice he enacts.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s just rule reaches every people and place, and the whole earth lives within its scope.
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.THE THREAD
For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.The Hebrew word for “judge,” shofet (שֹׁפֵט), shares the root שפט with the “judgments,” mishpatim (מִשְׁפָּטִים), in Psalm 105:7. Isaiah names the judge; the psalm shows those judgments reaching across the earth.
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