Psalms 145:13

Thy kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom,.... So it is opposed to all other kingdoms and monarchies, which have had or will have an end; as the Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman; with all other

Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom - literally, 'a kingdom of all eternities' (or ages).

Psalms 145:13 Thy kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion [endureth] throughout all generations.Ver. 13. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom] It cannot be overturned (that is comfortable to all Christ’ s subjects), as other flourishing kingdoms are, which have their times and their turns, their rise and their ruin. Alexander’ s kingdom continued but twelve years only, and fell with him; so did Tamerlane’ s greatness.

(13) See margin, and comp. Daniel 4:3; Daniel 4:34. But it is not necessary to see any dependence between the passages because of the recurrence of phrases which must have been of daily use in the theocracy. The nun stanza, which should come after Psalms 145:13, has most probably dropped away. The LXX. and Vulg., Syriac, and Ethiopic have here a variation of Psa 145:17, which would, in Hebrew, give a verse beginning with the required letter; but it is unknown to the other ancient versions, is rejected by the Jewish writers, and, though found in one Hebrew MS., is apparently suspicious there. But these arguments can hardly weigh against the improbability that, in an artificial composition, one letter (and that an easy one for the purpose) should have been either purposely or accidentally omitted in the original draft, especially when we reflect how extremely unlikely it was that the LXX. should trouble themselves to supply a verse in order to keep up an arrangement of which they took no other notice, perhaps even hardly observed it.

Verse 13. Thy dominion endureth] There is neither age nor people in and over which God does not manifest his benignly ruling power. As the above verse begins with the letter מ mem, the next in the order of the alphabet should begin with נ nun: but that verse is totally wanting. To say it never was in, is false, because the alphabet is not complete without it; and it is an unanswerable argument to prove the careless manner in which the Jews have preserved the Divine records. Though the Syriac, Septuagint, Vulgate, AEthiopic, Arabic, and Anglo-Saxon, have a verse, not in the Hebrew text, that answers to the נ nun, which is found in no printed copy of the Hebrew Bible; yet one MS., now in Trinity College, Dublin, has it thus, I suppose by correction, in the bottom of the page:- נאמן יהוה בכל דבריו וחסיד בכל מעשיו Neeman Yehovah bechol debaraiv; vechasid bechol maasaiv. "The Lord is faithful in all his words; and merciful in all his works." ΠιστοςΚυριοςεντοιςλογοιςαυτου·καιὁσιοςενπασιτιοςεργοιςαυτου. - SEPTUAGINT. Fidelis Dominus in omnibus verbis suis: et sanctus in omnibus operibus suis. - VULGATE. These two Versions, the Septuagint and Vulgate, are the same with the Hebrew given above. The Anglo-Saxon is the same:- [Anglo-Saxon]. "True Lord in all words his, and holy in all works his." The Latin text in my old Psalter is the same with the present printed Vulgate: "Fidelis Dominus in omnibus verbis suis, et sanctus in omnibus operibus suis." Thus translated in the same MSS.: Lorde true in all his words: and holy in al his workes. It is remarkable that the whole verse is wanting in the Vulgate, as published in the Complutensian Polyglot, as also the Antwerp and Paris Polyglots, which were taken from it. It is wanting also in the Polyglot Psalter of Porus, because he did not find it in the Hebrew text.

13. This verse is found also, in Aramaic, in Daniel 4:3, cp. 34 (Aram. Dan. 3:33, Daniel 4:31). an everlasting kingdom] Lit. a kingdom of all the ages, past alike and future. With the LXX βασιλείαπάντωντῶναἰωνων, cp. 1 Timothy 1:17 τῷβασιλεῖτῶναἰώνων, ‘unto the king of the ages.’ See also Psalms 10:16; Psalms 29:10; Exodus 15:18; Jeremiah 10:10. throughout all generations] In (or over) generation and generation, each successive generation. The verse beginning with Nϋn, which is missing in the Hebrew text, is thus supplied in the LXX and Versions dependent on it, and in the Syr.; Faithful Is the Lord in [all] his words, And holy in all his works[86]. [86] πιστὸςΚύριοςἐν [πᾶσιν, ΰc.a RT] τοῖςλόγοιςαὐτοῦ, καὶὅσιοςἐνπᾶσιτοῖςἔργοιςαὐτοῦ. The Heb. found in the lower margin of one late Heb. MS πֶ ?ΰֱ ?ξָ ?οιְ ?δֹ ?εָ ?δαְּ ?λָ ?μΞγְּ ?αָ ?εָ ?ιεεְ ?ηָ ?ρִ ?ιγαְּ ?μΞξַ ?ςֲ ?ωָׂ ?ιε is probably only a re-translation from the LXX.If this verse is genuine, it must have been lost at an early date, for it is not found in any of the later versions[87]. Against its genuineness it is argued that the first line is suggested by the occurrence of the word for ‘faithful’ (nĕ ?’emβn) in the same position in Psalms 111:7 b, and by the language of Deu 7:9, and that the second line is simply taken from Psalms 145:17. It may however be genuine. It is not likely that the Nϋn verse was originally omitted: it was not necessary for the LXX to supply it: and the Psalm contains many imitations and is not free from repetitions. [87] The verse is given in Lagarde’s ed. of Jerome’s Version; but it is not found in some good MSS and is obelised in others, and is probably an interpolation from the Vulg. with which it agrees exactly.

Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom ... - See Psalms 10:16, note; Daniel 4:34, note. The meaning is, that the reign of God will continue forever and ever.

13. Everlasting kingdom— “Kingdom” might better be kingly office, or majesty.