What Does Psalm 24:5 Mean in the King James?
He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
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
Blessing and alignment are carried into life from the God who delivers.
THE MEANING
This verse speaks to the reader now: blessing and alignment come from the LORD to the one who receives them. The gift is carried into life, with its source remaining the God who delivers. Deliverance and alignment meet in what the reader receives from God.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that alignment with God is a reward one must manufacture first; here alignment and blessing are received from the God of deliverance.
THE ROOT
יִשָּׂא
yissa
GROWS FROM
נשא
n-s-ʾ
lift, carry, bear
The verb rendered “receive” also evokes lifting and bearing. The blessing is pictured as something carried into the receiver’s life from its source.
ALSO GROWS
nasa: lift, carry, bear
נָשָׂא
This is the root verb’s fuller range, showing the carrying sense within the act of receiving.
massa: burden, load
מַשָּׂא
A burden is something borne; this branch makes the root’s carrying image concrete.
וּצְדָקָה
u-tzedaqah
GROWS FROM
צדק
ts-d-q
rightness, alignment
The word translated “righteousness” belongs to a root family whose sense opens toward alignment. Paired with blessing, alignment arrives as part of what the LORD gives, held alongside deliverance.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: rightness, justice
צֶדֶק
This branch shows the alignment beneath the verse’s word for righteousness.
tsaddiq: a just or aligned person
צַדִּיק
The person is described through alignment, linking the root to the life shaped by what is received.
יִשְׁעוֹ
yishʿo
GROWS FROM
ישע
y-sh-ʿ
deliver, bring out to safety and spaciousness
“salvation” in this verse is yishʿo. The closing phrase names God through the act of bringing out: he is the God of this person’s deliverance. Blessing and alignment come from the one whose nature is to deliver.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun names the deliverance that identifies the God who gives blessing and alignment.
moshia: deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This branch names the one who brings a person out, illuminating the source of the verse’s gifts.
THE PATTERN
God is the source from whom deliverance, blessing, and alignment are received and carried into life.
For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.THE THREAD
Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.Psalm 3:8 pairs deliverance (יְשׁוּעָה, yeshuah) with blessing (בִּרְכָה, birkah), locating both with the LORD. Psalm 24:5 brings that pairing close to the receiver, adding alignment from the God who delivers.
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