Psalm 148:6
New International Version
and he established them for ever and ever— he issued a decree that will never pass away.

New Living Translation
He set them in place forever and ever. His decree will never be revoked.

English Standard Version
And he established them forever and ever; he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.

Berean Standard Bible
He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.

King James Bible
He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.

New King James Version
He also established them forever and ever; He made a decree which shall not pass away.

New American Standard Bible
He has also established them forever and ever; He has made a decree, and it will not pass away.

NASB 1995
He has also established them forever and ever; He has made a decree which will not pass away.

NASB 1977
He has also established them forever and ever; He has made a decree which will not pass away.

Legacy Standard Bible
He caused them to stand forever and ever; He gave a statute and it will never pass away.

Amplified Bible
He has also established them forever and ever; He has made a decree which shall not pass away.

Christian Standard Bible
He set them in position forever and ever; he gave an order that will never pass away.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He set them in position forever and ever; He gave an order that will never pass away.

American Standard Version
He hath also established them for ever and ever: He hath made a decree which shall not pass away.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He established them for an eternity of eternities. He gave the law and it does not pass.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He has established them for ever, even for ever and ever: he has made an ordinance, and it shall not pass away.

Contemporary English Version
He made them to last forever, and nothing can change what he has done.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath established them for ever, and for ages of ages: he hath made a decree, and it shall not pass away.

English Revised Version
He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass away.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He set them in their places forever and ever. He made it a law that no one can break.

Good News Translation
by his command they were fixed in their places forever, and they cannot disobey.

International Standard Version
He set them in place to last forever and ever; he gave the command and will not rescind it.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He hath also established them for ever and ever; He hath made a decree which shall not be transgressed.

Literal Standard Version
And He establishes them forever and for all time, | He gave a statute, and they do not pass over.

Majority Standard Bible
He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away.

New American Bible
Assigned them their station forever, set an order that will never change.

NET Bible
He established them so they would endure; he issued a decree that will not be revoked.

New Revised Standard Version
He established them forever and ever; he fixed their bounds, which cannot be passed.

New Heart English Bible
He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath also established them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.

World English Bible
He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

Young's Literal Translation
And He establisheth them for ever to the age, A statute He gave, and they pass not over.

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Context
Praise the LORD From the Heavens!
5Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created. 6He established them forever and ever; He issued a decree that will never pass away. 7Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths,…

Cross References
Job 38:33
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

Psalm 89:37
like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky." Selah

Psalm 119:90
Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures.

Jeremiah 31:35
Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar--the LORD of Hosts is His name:

Jeremiah 31:36
"Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel's descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me."

Jeremiah 33:20
"This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

Jeremiah 33:25
This is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,


Treasury of Scripture

He has also established them for ever and ever: he has made a decree which shall not pass.

he hath also

Psalm 89:37
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

Psalm 93:1
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

Psalm 119:90,91
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth…

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Psalm 148
1. The psalmist exhorts the celestial
7. The terrestrial
11. And the rational creatures to praise God














(6) Stablished.--Literally, made to stand, i.e., set them up.

He hath made . . .--Rather, he hath made an ordinance, and will not transgress it. This is more obvious and natural than to supply a new subject to the second verb, "and none of them transgress it." This anticipates, but only in form, the modern scientific doctrine of the inviolability of natural order. It is the imperishable faithfulness of God that renders the law invariable. See the remarkable passages, Jeremiah 31:36; Jeremiah 33:20, from winch we conclude that a covenant was supposed to have been made between God and nature as between Jehovah and Israel, the one being as imperishable as the other. A comparison of the two passages referred to shows that the Hebrew words ordinance and covenant might be used synonymously. The Authorised Version, which, following the LXX. and Vulg., makes the ordinance itself imperishable, violates the usage of the Hebrew verb.

Verse 6. - He hath also established them forever and ever (comp. Psalm 89:37). The expression, "forever and ever," must not be pressed. It means "for all time" - while heaven and earth endure - but does not imply an absolute perpetuity. He hath made a decree which shall not pass; rather, which shall not pass away (see the Revised Version; and comp Genesis 8:22; Jeremiah 31:35, 36; Jeremiah 33:25).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He established them
וַיַּעֲמִידֵ֣ם (way·ya·‘ă·mî·ḏêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations

forever
לָעַ֣ד (lā·‘aḏ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5703: A, terminus, duration, advance, perpetuity

and ever;
לְעוֹלָ֑ם (lə·‘ō·w·lām)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always

He issued
נָ֝תַ֗ן (nā·ṯan)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

a decree
חָק־ (ḥāq-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2706: Something prescribed or owed, a statute

that will never
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

pass away.
יַעֲבֽוֹר׃ (ya·‘ă·ḇō·wr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on


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