Psalms 111 · Verse 9

Psalms 111:9

He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
Psalms 111:9, King James Version

Psalms 111:9 in other translations

BSBHe has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.
WEBHe has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!
ASVHe hath sent redemption unto his people; He hath commanded his covenant for ever: Holy and reverend is his name.
YLTRedemption He hath sent to His people, He hath appointed to the age His covenant, Holy and fearful is His name.
DARBYHe sent deliverance unto his people; he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and terrible is his name.
BBEHe has sent salvation to his people; he has given his word for ever: holy is his name and greatly to be feared.
WebsterHe sent redemption to his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.

What does Psalms 111:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. The deliverance He provided accorded to His established covenant. Thus He manifested Himself in the sum of His perfections (Psa 20:1, 7; 22:3) worthy of reverence.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 He sent redemption - He sent Moses to redeem them out of Egypt; various judges to deliver them out of the hands of their oppressors; Ezra, Nehemiah, and Zerubbabel, to deliver them from Babylon; and the Lord Jesus to redeem a whole lost world from sin, misery, and death. Holy and reverend is his name - The word reverend comes to us from the Latins, reverendus, and is compounded of re, intensive, and vereor, to be feared; and most or right reverend, reverendissimus, signifies to be greatly feared. These terms are now only titles of ecclesiastical respect, especially in the Protestant ministry; but there was a time in which these were no empty titles. Such was the power of the clergy, that, when they walked not in the fear of the Lord, they caused the people to fear, and they themselves were to be feared; but, when the secular power was added to the spiritual, they were then truly reverendi and reverendissimi, to be feared and greatly to be feared. But reverend is not applied to God in this way; nor does the word נורא nora bear this signification; it rather means terrible: Holy and terrible, or holy and tremendous, is his name. This title belongs not to man; nor does any minister, in assuming the title reverend, assume this. Indeed, the word reverend, as now used, gives us a very imperfect conception of the original term. Holy and tremendous is God's name. He is glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders, both in the way of judgment and in the way of mercy.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Psalms 111:9 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

פְּד֤וּת\׀pe.DutredemptionH6304
שָׁ֘לַ֤חsha.Lachhe sentH7971
לְעַמּ֗וֹle.'a.Mofor people hisH5971
צִוָּֽה\־tzi.vah-he ordainedH6680
לְעוֹלָ֥םle.'o.Lamfor everH5769
בְּרִית֑וֹbe.ri.Tocovenant hisH1285
קָד֖וֹשׁka.Do.osh[is] holyH6918
וְנוֹרָ֣אve.no.Ra'and to be fearedH3372
שְׁמֽוֹ\׃she.Moname hisH8034

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 111:9

  • Psalms 99:3

    Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.

  • Luke 1:49

    For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.

  • Luke 1:68

    Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,

  • Titus 2:14

    Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

  • Revelation 5:9

    And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

  • Hebrews 9:12

    Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

  • Hebrews 13:20

    Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

  • Ephesians 1:14

    Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

  • Jeremiah 33:20-21

    Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

  • Revelation 4:8

    And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

  • Ephesians 1:7

    In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

  • Deuteronomy 28:58

    If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
sent.
130:7,8; Ex 15:13; De 15:15; Isa 44:6; 63:9; Mt 1:21; Lu 1:68
Eph 1:7,14; Tit 2:14; Heb 9:12; 1Pe 1:18-20; Re 5:9
he hath.
5; 2Sa 23:5; 1Ch 16:15; Isa 55:3; Jer 33:20,21; Ga 3:15-17
Heb 13:20
holy.
89:7; 99:3,5,9; Ex 15:11; De 28:58; Isa 6:3; Mal 1:11; 2:2; Lu 1:49
Re 4:8

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Context

  • Psalms 111:8

    They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

  • Psalms 111:9

    He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.

  • Psalms 111:10

    The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

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Psalms 111:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Redención ha enviado á su pueblo; para siempre ha ordenado su pacto: santo y terrible es su nombre.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Il a envoyé la rédemption à son peuple; il a commandé son alliance pour toujours. Son nom est saint et terrible.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Er hat Erlösung gesandt seinem Volke, seinen Bund verordnet auf ewig; heilig und furchtbar ist sein Name.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Dispersit, dedit pauperibus; justitia ejus manet in sæculum sæculi: cornu ejus exaltabitur in gloria.