The Meaning of Deuteronomy 11:25 Explained

Deuteronomy 11:25

KJV: There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

YLT: no man doth station himself in your presence; your dread and your fear doth Jehovah your God put on the face of all the land on which ye tread, as He hath spoken to you.

Darby: No man shall be able to stand before you: the fear of you and the dread of you will Jehovah your God lay upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

ASV: There shall no man be able to stand before you: Jehovah your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath spoken unto you.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

There shall no man  be able to stand  before  you: [for] the LORD  your God  shall lay  the fear  of you and the dread  of you upon  all the land  that ye shall tread  upon, as he hath said  unto you. 

What does Deuteronomy 11:25 Mean?

Context Summary

Deuteronomy 11:18-32 - The Blessing And The Curse
Never in this world do we reach a position from which it is impossible to fall away. The dew and the rain of God's blessing are contingent on obedience; and one of the strongest incentives to obedience is devout meditation on the Word of God. It is through the letter that we arrive at the spirit; and through the written words at the Eternal Word. We must store up the sacred words of God as a farmer stores up his grain, keeping them before us, making them the familiar topics of home-talk, and exercising ourselves in them. Let us specially ponder Deuteronomy 11:22-25, appropriating them in a spiritual sense, and claiming their equivalents in the inner life.
All along our lives are Ebals and Gerizims, with their "Come, ye blessed" and "Depart, ye cursed." Always we are arriving at the crossways, on the one of which lies the smile, and on the other the frown, of God. Let us be attracted by the one and dissuaded from the other, till we climb the spiral staircase into the land where there is no cooling love or faltering faith. [source]

Chapter Summary: Deuteronomy 11

1  Another exhortation to obedience
2  by their own experience of God's great works
8  by promise of God's great blessings
16  and by threatenings
18  A careful study is required in God's words
26  The blessing and curse set before them

What do the individual words in Deuteronomy 11:25 mean?

No shall be able to stand man against you the fear of you and the dread of you will put Yahweh your God upon the face of all the land where you tread in just as He has said to you -
לֹא־ יִתְיַצֵּ֥ב אִ֖ישׁ בִּפְנֵיכֶ֑ם פַּחְדְּכֶ֨ם וּמֽוֹרַאֲכֶ֜ם יִתֵּ֣ן ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֗ם עַל־ פְּנֵ֤י כָל־ הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּדְרְכוּ־ בָ֔הּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר דִּבֶּ֥ר לָכֶֽם ס

לֹא־  No 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
יִתְיַצֵּ֥ב  shall  be  able  to  stand 
Parse: Verb, Hitpael, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: יָצַב 
Sense: to place, set, stand, set or station oneself, present oneself.
אִ֖ישׁ  man 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: אִישׁ 
Sense: man.
בִּפְנֵיכֶ֑ם  against  you 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine plural construct, second person masculine plural
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
פַּחְדְּכֶ֨ם  the  fear  of  you 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, second person masculine plural
Root: פַּחַד  
Sense: terror, dread.
וּמֽוֹרַאֲכֶ֜ם  and  the  dread  of  you 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct, second person masculine plural
Root: מֹורָא 
Sense: fear, reverence, terror.
יִתֵּ֣ן ׀  will  put 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: יָתַן 
Sense: to give, put, set.
יְהוָ֣ה  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.
אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֗ם  your  God 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, second person masculine plural
Root: אֱלֹהִים  
Sense: (plural).
עַל־  upon 
Parse: Preposition
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
פְּנֵ֤י  the  face 
Parse: Noun, common plural construct
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
כָל־  of  all 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
הָאָ֙רֶץ֙  the  land 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: אֶרֶץ  
Sense: land, earth.
אֲשֶׁ֣ר  where 
Parse: Pronoun, relative
Root: אֲשֶׁר 
Sense: (relative part.).
תִּדְרְכוּ־  you  tread 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine plural
Root: דָּרַךְ  
Sense: to tread, bend, lead, march.
כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר  just  as 
Parse: Preposition-k, Pronoun, relative
Root: אֲשֶׁר 
Sense: (relative part.).
דִּבֶּ֥ר  He  has  said 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
לָכֶֽם  to  you 
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation