Psalms 33:9

Christian Standard Bible ®

For he spoke, and it came into being;he commanded, and it came into existence.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

King James Version
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

English Standard Version
For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.

New Century Version
He spoke, and it happened. He commanded, and it appeared.

New English Translation
For he spoke, and it came into existence, he issued the decree, and it stood firm.

Amplified Bible
For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

New American Standard Bible
For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood firm.

World English Bible
For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For he spake, and it was done: he commanded, and it stood.

Legacy Standard Bible
For He spoke, and it was;He commanded, and it stood.

Berean Standard Bible
For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.

Contemporary English Version
As soon as he spoke the world was created; at his command, the earth was formed.

Complete Jewish Bible
For he spoke, and there it was; he commanded, and there it stood.

Darby Translation
For *he* spoke, and it was [done]; *he* commanded, and it stood fast.

Easy-to-Read Version
because when he speaks, things happen. And if he says, "Stop!"—then it stops.

George Lamsa Translation
For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

Good News Translation
When he spoke, the world was created; at his command everything appeared.

Lexham English Bible
For he himself spoke and it came to pass. He himself commanded and it stood firm.

Literal Translation
For He spoke, and it came into being; He commanded, and it stood fast.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For loke what he sayeth, it is done: and loke what he comaudeth, it stondeth fast.

American Standard Version
For he spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

Bible in Basic English
For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For He spoke, and it was; He commanded, and it stood.

King James Version (1611)
For he spake, and it was done: he commanded, and it stood fast.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he spake and it was: he commauded, and it was brought to passe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For he spoke, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.

English Revised Version
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For he seide, and thingis weren maad; he comaundide, and thingis weren maad of nouyt.

Update Bible Version
For he spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he spoke, and it was [done]; he commanded, and it stood fast.

New King James Version
For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

New Living Translation
For when he spoke, the world began! It appeared at his command.

New Life Bible
For He spoke, and it was done. He spoke with strong words, and it stood strong.

New Revised Standard
For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, he, spake, and it was, He, commanded, and it stood forth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(32-9) For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were created.

Revised Standard Version
For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood forth.

Young's Literal Translation
For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

Contextual Overview

¹Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous ones;praise from the upright is beautiful. ²Praise the Lord with the lyre;make music to him with a ten-stringed harp. ³Sing a new song to him;play skillfully on the strings, with a joyful shout. ⁴For the word of the Lord is right,and all his work is trustworthy. ⁵He loves righteousness and justice;the earth is full of the Lord’s unfailing love. ⁶The heavens were made by the word of the Lord,and all the stars, by the breath of his mouth. ⁷He gathers the water of the sea into a heap;he puts the depths into storehouses. ⁸Let the whole earth fear the Lord;let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. ⁹For he spoke, and it came into being;he commanded, and it came into existence.¹⁰The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations;he thwarts the plans of the peoples.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For: Psalms 33:6, Psalms 148:5, Psalms 148:6, Genesis 1:3, Hebrews 11:3

and it stood: Psalms 93:5, Psalms 119:90, Psalms 119:91, Colossians 1:16, Colossians 1:17, Hebrews 1:3, Revelation 4:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:1 - God Genesis 1:6 - Let there Genesis 2:1 - host Numbers 20:8 - speak 2 Samuel 17:14 - appointed 1 Kings 17:4 - I have commanded 2 Kings 19:15 - thou hast made 1 Chronicles 16:30 - stable Psalms 29:4 - powerful Psalms 78:23 - Though Psalms 90:2 - or ever Psalms 104:5 - Who laid the foundations of the earth Psalms 135:6 - Whatsoever Psalms 147:15 - sendeth Isaiah 34:16 - my mouth Lamentations 3:37 - saith Ezekiel 24:14 - the Lord Daniel 4:35 - and he Jonah 2:10 - General Matthew 8:3 - I will Matthew 8:8 - but Mark 1:41 - I Mark 1:42 - immediately Mark 5:41 - Damsel Mark 7:35 - General Mark 10:52 - he received Luke 5:13 - I will Luke 5:25 - immediately Luke 7:7 - but Luke 7:14 - Young Luke 18:42 - Receive John 4:53 - at the John 11:44 - he that

Cross-References

Genesis 4:9
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

Genesis 27:39
His father Isaac answered him,

Genesis 27:41
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart: “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Judges 20:23
They went up, wept before the Lord until evening, and inquired of him: “Should we again attack our brothers the Benjaminites?”

Proverbs 16:7
When a person’s ways please the Lord,he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 30:15
The leech has two daughters: “Give, Give!”Three things are never satisfied;four never say, “Enough!”:

Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is a person without a companion, without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches. “Who am I struggling for,” he asks, “and depriving myself of good things?” This too is futile and a miserable task.

Acts 9:17
Ananias went and entered the house. He placed his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road you were traveling, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 21:20
When they heard it, they glorified God and said, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

Philemon 1:7
For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he spake, and it was [done],.... Or "it was" a, it came into being by a word speaking, almighty power going along with it; see Genesis 1:3;

he commanded, and it stood fast; every created thing continued in its being; not only all things were produced into being by his all commanding word and power, "nutu Jovis", as Maximus Tyrius speaks b; but by the same all things are upheld and consist, Hebrews 1:3 Colossians 1:17. The poet c uses the same word of God in the creation of things; and is the phrase in Genesis 1:3 admired by Longinus d: or this may refer to the implantation of the grace of fear in the hearts of his people; for as he speaks life into them in regeneration, commands light to shine in their dark heart, and says to them, when in their blood, Live; so by the mighty power of his word he commands the fear of him in them, and it continues.

a ויהי "et fuit", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Gejerus; so Ainsworth. b Dissert. 25. c "Jussit et extendi campos", &c. Ovid. Metamorph. l. 1. Fab. 1. v. 43. d De Sublimi.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he spake, and it was done - The word “done,” introduced here by our translators, enfeebles the sentence. It would be made more expressive and sublime as it is in the original: “He spake, and it was.” That is, Its existence depended on his word; the universe sprang into being at his command; he had only to speak, and it arose in all its grandeur where before there was nothing. There is here an undoubted allusion to the account in Genesis of the work of creation - where the statement is that all depended on the command or the word of God: Genesis 1:3, Genesis 1:6,Genesis 1:9, Genesis 1:11, Genesis 1:14, Genesis 1:20, Genesis 1:24, Genesis 1:26. Nothing more sublime can be conceived than the language thus employed in the Scriptures in describing that work. No more elevated conception can enter the human mind than that which is implied when it is said, God “spoke” and all this vast and wonderful universe rose into being.

He commanded - He gave order; he required the universe to appear.

And it stood fast - Or rather, “stood.” That is, it stood forth; it appeared; it rose into being. The idea of its “standing fast” is not in the original, and greatly enfeebles the expression.