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Young's Literal Translation

Psalms 33:9

For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Heaven;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Creation;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Power;   Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Humility;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hymn;   Trinity;   Word;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Omnipotence;   Word (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Omnipotence;   World (Cosmological);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Creation;   Gnosticism;   God;   Memra;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 15;   Every Day Light - Devotion for March 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For he spoke, and it came into being;he commanded, and it came into existence.
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

Contextual Overview

1 Sing, ye righteous, in Jehovah, For upright ones praise [is] comely. 2 Give ye thanks to Jehovah with a harp, With psaltery of ten strings sing praise to Him, 3 Sing ye to Him a new song, Play skilfully with shouting. 4 For upright [is] the word of Jehovah, And all His work [is] in faithfulness. 5 Loving righteousness and judgment, Of the kindness of Jehovah is the earth full. 6 By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host. 7 Gathering as a heap the waters of the sea, Putting in treasuries the depths. 8 Afraid of Jehovah are all the earth, Of Him are all the inhabitants of the world afraid. 9 For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth. 10 Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts 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
And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Where [is] Abel thy brother?' and he saith, `I have not known; my brother's keeper -- I?'
Genesis 27:39
And Isaac his father answereth and saith unto him, `Lo, of the fatness of the earth is thy dwelling, and of the dew of the heavens from above;
Genesis 27:41
And Esau hateth Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau saith in his heart, `The days of mourning [for] my father draw near, and I slay Jacob my brother.'
Judges 20:23
And the sons of Israel go up and weep before Jehovah till the evening, and ask of Jehovah, saying, `Do I add to draw nigh to battle with the sons of Benjamin, my brother?' And Jehovah saith, `Go up against him.'
Proverbs 16:7
When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.
Proverbs 30:15
To the leech [are] two daughters, `Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said `Sufficiency;'
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and [he saith not], `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.
Acts 9:17
And Ananias went away, and did enter into the house, and having put upon him [his] hands, said, `Saul, brother, the Lord hath sent me -- Jesus who did appear to thee in the way in which thou wast coming -- that thou mayest see again, and mayest be filled with the Holy Spirit.'
Acts 21:20
and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, `Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law,
Philemon 1:7
for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, 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.


 
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