Psalms 78:69

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּ֣בֶן כְּמוֹ־רָ֭מִים מִקְדָּשׁ֑וֹ כְּ֝אֶ֗רֶץ יְסָדָ֥הּ לְעוֹלָֽם׃

Transliteration

wə-yiḇen kəmô-rāmîm miqdāšô kə-ʾereṣ yəsāḏāh lə-ʿôlām

Grammar Details

• *wə-yiḇen*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he built
• *kəmô-rāmîm*: like heights/like high places - preposition + masculine plural noun
• *miqdāšô*: his sanctuary - masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix
• *kə-ʾereṣ*: like the earth - preposition + feminine singular noun
• *yəsāḏāh*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - he founded it
• *lə-ʿôlām*: for eternity/forever - preposition + masculine singular noun

Word Meanings

• *wə-yiḇen*: built/constructed/established
• *kəmô-rāmîm*: like high places/like heights/like heaven's heights
• *miqdāšô*: his sanctuary/his holy place/his temple
• *yəsāḏāh*: founded it/established it/settled it
• *lə-ʿôlām*: forever/eternally/for all time

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 2:8 : 8 He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause `them' to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah `are' the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.
• 1 Kgs 6:1-9 : 1 And it cometh to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year -- in the month of Zif, it `is' the second month -- of the reigning of Solomon over Israel, that he buildeth the house for Jehovah. 2 As to the house that king Solomon hath built for Jehovah, sixty cubits `is' its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height. 3 As to the porch on the front of the temple of the house, twenty cubits `is' its length on the front of the breadth of the house; ten by the cubit `is' its breadth on the front of the house; 4 and he maketh for the house windows of narrow lights. 5 And he buildeth against the wall of the house a couch round about, `even' the walls of the house round about, of the temple and of the oracle, and maketh sides round about. 6 The lowest couch, five by the cubit `is' its breadth; and the middle, six by the cubit `is' its breadth; and the third, seven by the cubit `is' its breadth, for withdrawings he hath put to the house round about, without -- not to lay hold on the walls of the house. 7 And the house, in its being built, of perfect stone brought `thither' hath been built, and hammer, and the axe -- any instrument of iron -- was not heard in the house, in its being built. 8 The opening of the middle side `is' at the right shoulder of the house, and with windings they go up on the middle one, and from the middle one unto the third. 9 And he buildeth the house, and completeth it, and covereth the house `with' beams and rows of cedars. 10 And he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits `is' its height, and it taketh hold of the house by cedar-wood. 11 And the word of Jehovah is unto Solomon, saying, 12 `This house that thou art building -- if thou dost walk in My statutes, and My judgments dost do, yea, hast done all My commands, to walk in them, then I have established My word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father, 13 and have tabernacled in the midst of the sons of Israel, and do not forsake My people Israel.' 14 And Solomon buildeth the house and completeth it; 15 and he buildeth the walls of the house within with beams of cedar, from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling; he hath overlaid with wood the inside, and covereth the floor of the house with ribs of fir. 16 And he buildeth the twenty cubits on the sides of the house with ribs of cedar, from the floor unto the walls; and he buildeth for it within, for the oracle, for the holy of holies. 17 And forty by the cubit was the house, it `is' the temple before `it'. 18 And the cedar for the house within `is' carvings of knobs and openings of flowers; the whole `is' cedar, there is not a stone seen. 19 And the oracle in the midst of the house within he hath prepared, to put there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah. 20 And before the oracle `is' twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits `is' its height; and he overlayeth it with gold refined, and overlayeth the altar with cedar. 21 And Solomon overlayeth the house within with gold refined, and causeth `it' to pass over in chains of gold before the oracle, and overlayeth it with gold. 22 And the whole of the house he hath overlaid with gold, till the completion of all the house; and the whole of the altar that the oracle hath, he hath overlaid with gold. 23 And he maketh within the oracle two cherubs, of the oil-tree, ten cubits `is' their height; 24 and five cubits `is' the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub, ten cubits from the ends of its wings even unto the ends of its wings; 25 and ten by the cubit `is' the second cherub, one measure and one form `are' to the two cherubs, 26 the height of the one cherub `is' ten by the cubit, and so `is' the second cherub; 27 and he setteth the cherubs in the midst of the inner house, and they spread out the wings of the cherubs, and a wing of the one cometh against the wall, and a wing of the second cherub is coming against the second wall, and their wings `are' unto the midst of the house, coming wing against wing; 28 and he overlayeth the cherubs with gold, 29 and all the walls of the house round about he hath carved with openings of carvings, cherubs, and palm trees, and openings of flowers, within and without. 30 And the floor of the house he hath overlaid with gold, within and without; 31 as to the opening of the oracle, he made doors of the oil-tree; the lintel, side-posts, a fifth. 32 And the two doors `are' of the oil-tree, and he hath carved upon them carvings of cherubs, and palm-trees, and openings of flowers, and overlaid with gold, and he causeth the gold to go down on the cherubs and on the palm-trees. 33 And so he hath made for the opening of the temple, side-posts of the oil-tree, from the fourth. 34 And the two doors `are' of fir-tree, the two sides of the one door are revolving, and the two hangings of the second door are revolving. 35 And he hath carved cherubs, and palms, and openings of flowers, and overlaid with straightened gold the graved work. 36 And he buildeth the inner court, three rows of hewn work, and a row of beams of cedar. 37 In the fourth year hath the house of Jehovah been founded, in the month Zif, 38 and in the eleventh year, in the month Bul -- `that is' the eighth month -- hath the house been finished in all its matters, and in all its ordinances, and he buildeth it seven years.
• 1 Kgs 9:8 : 8 as to this house, `that' is high, every one passing by it is astonished, and hath hissed, and they have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
• 1 Chr 29:1 : 1 And David the king saith to all the assembly, `Solomon my son -- the one on whom God hath fixed -- `is' young and tender, and the work `is' great, for not for man is the palace, but for Jehovah God;
• 1 Chr 29:19 : 19 and to Solomon my son give a perfect heart, to keep Thy commands, Thy testimonies, and Thy statutes, and to do the whole, even to build the palace `for' which I have prepared.'
• 2 Chr 2:9 : 9 even to prepare for me trees in abundance, for the house that I am building `is' great and wonderful.
• 2 Chr 3:4 : 4 As to the porch that `is' on the front, the length `is' by the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty, and he overlayeth it within with pure gold.
• Job 26:7 : 7 Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,
• Ps 102:25 : 25 Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands `are' the heavens.
• Ps 104:5 : 5 He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.
• Ps 119:90-91 : 90 To all generations Thy faithfulness, Thou didst establish earth, and it standeth. 91 According to Thine ordinances They have stood this day, for the whole `are' Thy servants.
• Isa 48:13 : 13 Also, My hand hath founded earth, And My right hand stretched out the heavens, I am calling unto them, they stand together.
• Isa 51:6 : 6 Lift ye up to the heavens your eyes, And look attentively unto the earth beneath, For the heavens as smoke have vanished, And the earth as a garment weareth out, And its inhabitants as gnats do die, And My salvation is to the age, And My righteousness is not broken.
• Col 1:16-17 : 16 because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created, 17 and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.
• Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them;