Psalms 103:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

To those who keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments to do them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י בְרִית֑וֹ וּלְזֹכְרֵ֥י פִ֝קֻּדָ֗יו לַעֲשׂוֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

To-šōmrê bərîtô û-to-zōkrê piqqūdāyw laʿăśôtām

Grammar Details

• *šōmrê*: qal participle masculine plural construct with prefixed preposition *lə* - to keepers of
• *bərîtô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his covenant
• *û*: conjunction - and
• *zōkrê*: qal participle masculine plural construct with prefixed preposition *lə* - to rememberers of
• *piqqūdāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his precepts
• *laʿăśôtām*: qal infinitive construct with prefixed preposition *lə* and 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to do them

Word Meanings

• *šōmrê*: keepers/observers/guardians
• *bərîtô*: his covenant/agreement/alliance
• *zōkrê*: rememberers/those who recall/those mindful of
• *piqqūdāyw*: his precepts/commandments/orders
• *laʿăśôtām*: to do them/to perform them/to fulfill them

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  With those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  To such as keep his covenant, And to those that remember his precepts to do them.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Soch as kepe his couenaunt, and thinke vpon his commaundementes to do them.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Vnto them that keepe his couenant, and thinke vpon his commandements to doe them.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Euen vpon such as kepe his couenaunt: and thinke vpon his commaundementes to do them.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  To those who keep his covenant, To those who remember to obey his precepts.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  To those keeping His covenant, And to those remembering His precepts to do them.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  To such as keep his covenant, And to those that remember his precepts to do them.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  To such as keep his covenant, And to those that remember his precepts to do them.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.

• World English Bible (2000)

  to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  to those who keep his covenant, who are careful to obey his commands.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 7:9 : 9 Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
• Ps 25:10 : 10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.
• Acts 24:16 : 16 And here I exercise myself, to have always a conscience without offense toward God, and toward men.
• 2 Chr 34:31 : 31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
• Heb 8:6-9 : 6 But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then there would have been no occasion sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, He says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more. 13 In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first old. Now that which decays and grows old is ready to vanish away.
• Ps 119:9-9 : 9 BETH. How shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word. 10 With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments. 11 Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.
• Ps 132:12 : 12 If your children will keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne forevermore.
• Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, do not forget my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:
• Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen.
• Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• Gen 17:9-9 : 9 And God said to Abraham, You shall keep my covenant therefore, you and your descendants after you in their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised.
• Exod 19:5 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine:
• Exod 24:8 : 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.
• Deut 4:23 : 23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, or the likeness of anything, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
• Deut 6:6-9 : 6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: 7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Furthermore, then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.