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OET-LV Rise_up Oh_Yahweh confront before_him bring_down_him deliver life_my from_wicked sword_your.
UHB דִּמְיֹנ֗וֹ כְּ֭אַרְיֵה יִכְס֣וֹף לִטְר֑וֹף וְ֝כִכְפִ֗יר יֹשֵׁ֥ב בְּמִסְתָּרִֽים׃ ‡
(dimyonō ⱪəʼaryēh yikşōf liţərōf vəkikəfiyr yoshēⱱ bəmişttārīm.)
Key: yellow:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT They are like a lion eager for a victim, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.
UST They are like lions that are ready to tear apart the animals that they capture;
⇔ They are like young lions that are hiding, waiting to jump on their prey.
BSB like a lion greedy for prey,
⇔ like a young lion lurking in ambush.
OEB like a lion, longing to tear,
⇔ like a young lion, lurking in secret.
WEB He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey,
⇔ as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
NET He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits,
⇔ like a young lion crouching in hidden places.
LSV His likeness as a lion desirous to tear,
As a young lion dwelling in secret places.
FBV They are like lions, longing to tear their prey apart; like fierce lions crouching in ambush.
T4T They are like lions [SIM] that are ready to tear apart the animals that they capture;
⇔ they are like young lions that are hiding, waiting to pounce on their prey.
LEB • [fn] a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.
?:? Literally “His image”
BBE Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.
MOF like lions longing to devour,
⇔ like lions lurking for their prey.
JPS He is like a lion that is eager to tear in pieces, and like a young lion lurking in secret places.
ASV He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey,
⇔ And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
DRA And he made darkness his covert, his pavilion round about him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.
YLT His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.
DBY He is like a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.
RV He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
WBS Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
KJB Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.[fn][fn]
(Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.)
17.12 Like…: Heb. The likeness of him (that is, of every one of them) is as a lion that desireth to ravin
17.12 lurking: Heb. sitting
BB Aryse O God, preuent his commyng, make hym to bowe: delyuer thou my soule from the vngodly which is thy sworde.
(Arise O God, prevent his coming, make him to bow: deliver thou/you my soule from the ungodly which is thy/your sword.)
GNV Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places.
CB Like as a lyon that is gredy of his pray, & as it were a lyons whelpe lurckynge in his denne.
(Like as a lyon that is gredy of his pray, and as it were a lyons whelpe lurckynge in his denne.)
WYC And he settide derknesses his hidyng place, his tabernacle `in his cumpas; derk water was in the cloudes of the lowere eir.
(And he settide derknesses his hidyng place, his tabernacle `in his cumpas; derk water was in the clouds of the lowere eir.)
LUT gleichwie ein Löwe, der des Raubes begehrt, wie ein junger Löwe, der in der Höhle sitzt.
(gleichwie a Löwe, the the Raubes begehrt, like a junger Löwe, the in the Höhle sits.)
CLV Et posuit tenebras latibulum suum; in circuitu ejus tabernaculum ejus, tenebrosa aqua in nubibus aëris.[fn]
(And posuit tenebras latibulum suum; in circuitu his tabernaculum his, tenebrosa water in nubibus aëris.)
17.12 Tenebras. AUG. Obscuritates sacramentorum, vel, in his tenebris, ubi videntes per fidem ambulamus, et non per speciem Matth. 2.. Non per cœlos. CASS. Descendit et ascendit II Cor. 5., sed per nubes æthereas quod in Hebræo, id est, per prophetas in quibus obscura doctrina sit, sed per nubes quæ non ætheris, id est, Apostoli præfulgidæ sunt in cognitione ejus, id est, vicinius contemplantes.
17.12 Tenebras. AUG. Obscuritates sacramentorum, vel, in his darkness, ubi videntes per faith ambulamus, and not/no per speciem Matth. 2.. Non per cœlos. CASS. Descendit and ascendit II Cor. 5., but per clouds æthereas that in Hebræo, id it_is, per prophetas in to_whom obscura doctrina let_it_be, but per clouds which not/no ætheris, id it_is, Apostoli præfulgidæ are in cognitione his, id it_is, vicinius contemplantes.
BRN And he made darkness his secret place: round about him was his tabernacle, even dark water in the clouds of the air.
BrLXX Καὶ ἔθετο σκότος ἀποκρυφὴν αὐτοῦ, κύκλῳ αὐτοῦ ἡ σκηνὴ αὐτοῦ, σκοτεινὸν ὕδωρ ἐν νεφέλαις ἀέρων.
(Kai etheto skotos apokrufaʸn autou, kuklōi autou haʸ skaʸnaʸ autou, skoteinon hudōr en nefelais aerōn. )
Ps 17 The psalmist pleads for God’s protection and vindication, affirms his own integrity, and prays that the Lord will prevail against his fierce enemies.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
like a lion eager for a victim, like a young lion crouching in hidden places
(Some words not found in UHB: likeness_of,they like,lion eager to,tear and,like,young_lion was_sitting in/on/at/with,ambush )
These two phrases express very similar ideas. The repetition adds intensity.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / simile
They are like a lion & like a young lion
(Some words not found in UHB: likeness_of,they like,lion eager to,tear and,like,young_lion was_sitting in/on/at/with,ambush )
The writer feels pursued the way a lion hunts its prey