Psalm 145 Bible study: Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom

In Hebrew, Psalm 145 runs through the alphabet, one letter to a verse. After the title, its first word is aromimkha, I will exalt you (145:1), which begins with aleph, the alphabet's first letter. Each verse after it begins with the next letter: bet (bekhol, Every, 145:2), gimel (gadol, Great, 145:3), dalet (dor, generation, 145:4), he (hadar, majesty, 145:5), vav (ve'ezuz, the might, 145:6, where the letter is the word and joined to it), zayin (zekher, memory, 145:7), chet (chanun, gracious, 145:8), tet (tov, good, 145:9), yod (yodukha, will give thanks to you, 145:10), kaf (kevod, the glory, 145:11), lamed (lehodia, to make known, 145:12), mem (malkhutkha, Your kingdom, 145:13), samekh (somekh, upholds, 145:14), ayin (einei, The eyes, 145:15), pe (poteach, open, 145:16), tsade (tsaddiq, righteous, 145:17), qof (qarov, near, 145:18), resh (retson, the desire, 145:19), shin (shomer, preserves, 145:20) and tav (tehillat, the praise, 145:21), the alphabet's last letter. That is 21 verses for the alphabet's 22 letters. The one left out is nun, which comes between mem and samekh: in the Hebrew text these notes use, no verse begins with it. (The WEB's 145:13 has a sentence that this Hebrew text doesn't; see the honest questions.) Psalm 111 has its letters two and three to a verse, and Psalm 119 gives each letter eight verses; their notes set their letters out (Psalm 111:1, Psalm 119:1). The psalm doesn't explain its letters, and these notes go no further than what the letters show.

Psalms 145:14→leads toLuke 13:11-13

Jesus "was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day" (Luke 13:10). "Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over and could in no way straighten herself up" (Luke 13:11). He said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your infirmity" (Luke 13:12), and "He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God" (Luke 13:13). Psalm 145 praises the LORD who "upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down" (Psalm 145:14). Luke doesn't cite Psalm 145, and it was written in Greek, so no link between its words and the psalm's Hebrew is claimed; setting them side by side is a reading. It rests on a shared subject, one bowed down made to stand and God praised for it, not on a shared word. Some hear in Luke 13 what the psalm praises the LORD for, done when Jesus laid his hands on her, and she glorified God. Others note that the psalm doesn't say what bows people down or speak of healing, read 145:14 of all whom the LORD lifts, and read Luke 13 on its own terms, as the Sabbath healing Luke tells (Luke 13:14-16). These notes don't choose between them.

מַלְכוּתmalkhutsay mal-KHOOT

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "royalty, royal power, reign, kingdom". Strong's: "a rule; concretely, a dominion". The Psalms have it six times, and four are in Psalm 145:11-13. The other two: "A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom" (Psalm 45:6), and "The LORD has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all" (Psalm 103:19). In 145:13 it comes twice in one line: "Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom" (145:13), in Hebrew malkhutkha malkhut kol olamim.