What Does Psalm 145:10 Mean?
All your works extend their hands to you, O LORD, and your faithful ones bless you.
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
All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.THE KEY
The works’ praise is their own acknowledgment of God, and the faithful ones give that recognition the shape of blessing.
THE MEANING
Every work of God’s hands bears witness to its maker; praise is not confined to a human voice. The faithful ones, shaped by faithful love, answer that recognition by blessing the LORD.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that praise begins only when a person speaks or sings: the works themselves already bear witness.
THE ROOT
יוֹדוּךָ
yôdûkha
GROWS FROM
ידה
Acknowledge, give thanks, praise, or confess.
The word translated “praise” carries the sense of acknowledging and giving thanks. The verse pictures creation itself as recognition of God, not merely as a display for him.
ALSO GROWS
todah: Thanksgiving or a thanksgiving offering.
תּוֹדָה
This branch makes the gratitude inside the works’ praise visible.
Yehudah: Judah, a name associated with giving praise or thanks.
יְהוּדָה
The name carries the same language of acknowledgment found in the works’ praise.
וַחֲסִידֶיךָ
vaḥasîdeykha
GROWS FROM
חסד
Faithful, loyal love.
The Hebrew word rendered “saints” names the LORD’s faithful ones, from the root of faithful love. Their blessing grows from that relationship rather than from a distant category of holiness.
ALSO GROWS
ḥesed: Faithful love.
חֶסֶד
It reveals the quality carried in the name of the LORD’s faithful ones.
ḥasid: A faithful or devoted one.
חָסִיד
This singular form shows how the verse names those who bless the LORD: as people marked by faithful devotion.
יְבָרְכוּכָה
yevarekhuḵa
GROWS FROM
ברך
To bless; the same root also forms the word for knee.
“bless you” in this verse is yevarekhuḵa. The faithful ones’ blessing is distinct from the works’ acknowledgment: the root also holds the image of the knee, giving blessing the sense of honor expressed in posture as well as words.
ALSO GROWS
berakhah: Blessing.
בְּרָכָה
This noun carries the same root as the faithful ones’ act of blessing.
berekh: Knee.
בֶּרֶךְ
This shared root links blessing with the posture of honoring.
THE PATTERN
Creation bears witness to its maker, and human blessing joins a chorus already sounding through what is made.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens recount the weight of God; and the expanse sets forth the work of his hands.And every created thing in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, and all that is in them, I hear them saying, Blessing, and honor, and weight, and power, be to the one who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb, into the ages of the ages.THE THREAD
Extend your hands in thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his faithful love reaches to the ages.The Hebrew verb translated “give thanks” comes from the same ידה root as “shall praise” in Psalm 145:10. This verse makes explicit the thankful acknowledgment that Psalm 145 places in all God’s works.
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