What Does Revelation 15:3 Mean?
And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty; aligned and true are your ways, King of the nations.
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
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.THE KEY
The song makes deliverance a revelation of God’s nature: the way out is also just and true.
THE MEANING
The song joins Moses and the Lamb in one testimony: deliverance opens a way through what constricts. God’s works astonish, and God’s ways are aligned and true; power and truth belong together in the One named Lord God Almighty. The reader is met now by a deliverance whose path bears the character of its source.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that power must be crooked or that justice must be powerless: the song holds great works and aligned, true ways together.
THE ROOT
ὁδοί
hodoi
GROWS FROM
ὁδ-
hod-
A way, road, or path along which one goes.
“ways” in this verse is hodoi. The Greek word names a route, not just a rule. It also appears in ἔξοδος (exodos, a way out), so the song of Moses brings the shape of deliverance into the phrase: God’s works open a path through what holds people.
ALSO GROWS
exodos: A way out, departure, or exit.
ἔξοδος
The word contains hodos, “way”; it echoes the deliverance sung in Moses’ song.
hodēgeō: To guide or lead along a way.
ὁδηγέω
It shows a way as a route one is led through, not an abstract direction.
δίκαιαι
dikaiai
GROWS FROM
δικ-
dik-
Right, just, or in right order.
“aligned” in this verse is dikaiai. The word describes God’s ways, so alignment belongs to the path itself, not only to a verdict about it. Joined with “true,” it presents the way God opens as both rightly ordered and reliable.
ALSO GROWS
dikaiosynē: Righteousness or alignment.
δικαιοσύνη
It names the right ordering that the verse finds within God’s ways.
dikaioō: To justify, set right, or align.
δικαιόω
It carries the same family’s movement toward what is set right.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance becomes testimony: the way opened by God’s victory becomes a song about God’s character.
Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said, I will sing to the LORD, for he has risen high, risen high; horse and rider he has hurled into the sea.He makes his ways known to Moses, and his deeds to the children of Israel.And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb, and through the word of their witness, and they did not love their living souls, even unto death.THE THREAD
He is the Rock; whole is his work, for all his ways are judgment. A God of steadiness, without crookedness, aligned and straight is he.Moses’ song already joins God’s work, ways, truth, and justice. In the Greek Scriptures, it shares the word families for works, ways, and just with Revelation’s song, so the Lamb’s deliverance carries the same aligned and truthful character.
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