What Does Psalm 89:26 Mean in the King James?
He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my 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
His cry names one presence in three registers: Father, God, and the rock beneath deliverance.
THE MEANING
Your cry reaches toward a presence you can name as Father and God; that same presence is the rock beneath your deliverance. Intimacy and firmness belong to one relationship, and the way out has ground beneath it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that you must choose between a tender Father and a strong deliverer: it names both as the same one.
THE ROOT
יִקְרָאֵנִי
yiqra'eni
GROWS FROM
קרא
qara
To call, summon, or proclaim.
The word translated “cry” is a direct call. Its root also gives words for calling and gathering, so this cry is more than sound: it is an address that draws the speaker into relationship.
ALSO GROWS
qeri'ah: Calling or reading aloud.
קְרִיאָה
This branch keeps the sense of a voice making something present, like the son who calls to God.
miqra: Assembly or convocation; also a reading.
מִקְרָא
The same root’s call can gather people together, echoing how this cry draws Father, God, and rock into one address.
יְשׁוּעָתִי
yeshu'ati
GROWS FROM
ישע
yasha
To deliver, bring out to safety.
The word rendered “salvation” is yeshuah: deliverance, being brought out of constriction into spaciousness. Joined to “rock,” this deliverance has firm ground beneath it.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: To deliver or bring to safety.
יָשַׁע
The verb shows that deliverance is movement out of danger and into safety.
Yeshua: Deliverance; also a name carrying the sense of deliverance.
יֵשׁוּעַ
The name shares this root, linking the son’s named rock of deliverance with deliverance itself.
THE PATTERN
Scripture presents the one who delivers as firm ground that holds.
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.The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.THE THREAD
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.The verb behind “cry” shares its root with “call” here: both describe a direct address. Jeremiah’s invitation opens that call further, showing the reader a relationship that answers.
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