What Does Psalm 100:5 Mean?
For the LORD is good; his faithful love reaches to the ages, and his steadiness holds from generation to generation.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.THE KEY
What endures here is not an abstract truth but the LORD’s steady reliability, carried through faithful love from one generation into the next.
THE MEANING
The LORD is good to you now: his faithful love does not run out with time. His steadiness reaches across generations, so your present belongs to a continuity larger than itself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
God’s love is temporary, and his reliability can be exhausted by the changes each generation brings.
THE ROOT
חַסְדּוֹ
ḥasdo
GROWS FROM
ח־ס־ד
ḥ-s-d
To show loyal kindness; faithful love expressed through committed care.
The word translated “mercy” is chesed, faithful love that makes goodness dependable. Its reach through time shows that the LORD’s care is committed, not passing.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāsad: To act loyally or show kindness.
חָסַד
This verb form gives chesed an active quality: the LORD’s faithful love is care in action.
ḥāsîd: A faithful or devoted one.
חָסִיד
The word for a devoted person shares the root of the LORD’s faithful love, linking steadfast care with steadfast devotion.
אֱמוּנָתוֹ
ʾemunato
GROWS FROM
א־מ־ן
ʾ-m-n
To be firm, steady, or trustworthy; to support and uphold.
“steadiness” in this verse is ʾemunato. The word translated “truth” is emunah, from aman: firm, steady, trustworthy. It points beyond correct information to reliability that remains solid from one generation to another.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāmēn: Firm, sure, or reliable; an affirmation of what can be trusted.
אָמֵן
The familiar “Amen” comes from the same root, echoing the steadiness the verse names.
neʾĕmān: Reliable or trustworthy.
נֶאֱמָן
This branch describes what proves steady; the LORD’s emunah is that reliability extended across generations.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s enduring goodness appears as faithful love and steadiness carried from one generation into the next.
It is by the faithful love of the LORD that we are not used up, for his compassions do not run out. They are new every morning; great is your steadiness.And his faithful love is for those in awe of him, from generation to generation.Jesus, the Anointed One, is the same yesterday, and today, and for the ages.THE THREAD
For the mountains will be moved, and the hills will totter, but my faithful love will not move away from you, nor will the covenant of my wholeness totter, says the LORD who has compassion on you.Psalm 100’s חַסְדּוֹ (ḥasdo, his faithful love) shares its root with the חֶסֶד (chesed, faithful love) rendered “kindness” here. Isaiah sets that love against mountains and hills that can shift: the world may change, but this care does not depart.
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