What Does Psalm 145:7 Mean in the King James?
They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
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 memory of abundant goodness is not kept inside; it gushes out into speech and song.
THE MEANING
The LORD’s abundant goodness is remembered aloud, and his righteousness, his alignment, becomes song. Memory is not a sealed archive here: it rises into shared speech, giving voice now to what is good and right.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse dissolves the belief that remembering goodness is passive, private recollection: here it rises into shared utterance and song.
THE ROOT
יַבִּיעוּ
yabbîʿû
GROWS FROM
נבע
n-b-ʿ
Bubble up, gush forth, pour out.
“abundantly utter” in this verse is yabbîʿû. The verb translated “utter” pictures speech as a spring’s outflow. The same root can describe wisdom flowing and foolishness pouring out, so the image connects what is said to what wells up within.
ALSO GROWS
yabbîaʿ: pours forth
יַבִּיעַ
Proverbs 15:2 uses this form for foolish speech, showing that the same flowing image can carry different contents.
nōvēaʿ: flowing, gushing
נֹבֵעַ
In Proverbs 18:4 it describes a flowing brook of wisdom, making the root’s picture of speech as an outpouring especially vivid.
זֵכֶר
zēker
GROWS FROM
זכר
z-k-r
Remember, recall, call to mind.
The verse speaks of the goodness’ זֵכֶר (zēker, “remembrance, renown”), what is carried forward and voiced. This word family links remembering with memorial, so praise becomes memory given an audible, shared form.
ALSO GROWS
zākar: remember, call to mind
זָכַר
The verb names the act behind the verse’s remembrance: goodness is held in mind and brought into speech.
zikkārôn: remembrance, memorial
זִכָּרוֹן
A memorial makes remembrance endure; here the spoken praise carries that remembrance among people.
צִדְקָתְךָ
tsidqatekha
GROWS FROM
צדק
ts-d-q
Be right, just, aligned.
The word translated “righteousness” carries the sense of rightness and alignment. The verse holds abundant goodness together with alignment: what is celebrated is both generous and rightly ordered.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: justice, rightness
צֶדֶק
This branch shows the quality being sung as a right order, not only a moral label.
tsaddiq: righteous, an aligned person
צַדִּיק
The related description makes the root’s sense of alignment visible in a person’s character.
THE PATTERN
What fills the heart and memory takes outward form in speech and song.
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.THE THREAD
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.The Hebrew verb יַבִּיעוּ (yabbîʿû, “they pour forth”) here and יַבִּיעַ (yabbîaʿ, “pours out”) in Proverbs come from נבע (n-b-ʿ, “gush forth”). Proverbs gives the same flowing verb to foolish speech, showing that the image describes how speech rises from its source; this psalm’s source is the memory of the LORD’s abundant goodness.
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