What Does Psalm 106:1 Mean in the King James?
Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
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 word rendered “mercy” is chesed, faithful love, so praise rests on a nature that does not run out.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s goodness is present now, and his faithful love holds through every age. Praise and thanks meet that enduring character in the present moment.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the fear that divine kindness is only temporary: this verse describes faithful love as lasting through every age.
THE ROOT
חַסְדּוֹ
ḥasdô
GROWS FROM
חסד
ḥ-s-d
Faithful love, loyal kindness expressed in relationship.
The verse’s “mercy” is chesed: faithful love that remains. The surrounding לְעוֹלָם (leʿolam, through the age or ages) gives that love a span across the ages.
ALSO GROWS
ḥasdey: Faithful loves; acts of faithful love, rendered “mercies” in some contexts.
חַסְדֵי
This plural form shows the same faithful love as something encountered in repeated acts, not only as an abstract quality.
ḥāsîd: A faithful or devout person, one characterized by loyal kindness.
חָסִיד
The same root can describe a person marked by faithful love, linking the quality in this verse with a lived character.
הוֹדוּ
hôdû
GROWS FROM
ידה
y-d-h
Acknowledge, give thanks, or praise.
The word translated “give thanks” comes from yada, whose range includes acknowledging and praising. Thanks here is spoken recognition of the LORD’s goodness, not a feeling detached from what is named.
ALSO GROWS
tôdâ: Thanksgiving, thanks, or praise.
תּוֹדָה
This noun for thanksgiving grows from the same root as the verb in the verse, joining the act of giving thanks to its expression.
Yəhûdâ: Judah, a name associated with praise and thanksgiving.
יְהוּדָה
The shared root links the language of thanks with a name formed around praise.
THE PATTERN
Praise and gratitude rise from goodness whose faithful love remains through every age and condition.
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.THE THREAD
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,The “goodness” here is רַב־חֶסֶד (rav chesed, abundant in faithful love), built on the same חֶסֶד (chesed, faithful love) seed that Psalm 106:1 renders “mercy.” The shared root lets goodness and mercy appear as expressions of one enduring character.
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