What Does Psalm 145:7 Mean?
They pour out the remembrance of your great goodness, and they ring out your alignment.
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
They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.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.
“pour out” 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.
He sets a new song in my mouth, praise to our God. Many see and stand in awe, and lean their weight upon the LORD.A good human brings out good from the good treasure of the heart, and an evil human brings out evil from the evil treasure of the heart, for from the overflow of the heart his mouth speaks.Let the word of the Anointed One settle in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another, in plucked songs, in hymns, and in songs of breath, singing with favor in your hearts to God.THE THREAD
The tongue of the wise makes knowledge good, but the mouth of fools gushes out folly.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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