PSA 55:15 Parallel View

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55:16 Note--fnCOLON-- KJB--fnCOLON-- Ps--fnPERIOD--55--fnPERIOD--15

55:16 Variant note--fnCOLON-- ישימות--fnCOLON-- (x-qere) ’יַשִּׁ֤י’--fnCOLON-- lemma=5377 morph=HVhj3ms id=19LQP יַשִּׁ֤י ’מָ֨וֶת’--fnCOLON-- lemma=4194 n=1--fnPERIOD--0--fnPERIOD--0 morph=HNcmsa id=19aiP מָ֨וֶת׀ ׀

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 Let death come suddenly on them;
 ⇔ let them go down alive to Sheol,
 ⇔ for wickedness is where they live, right among them.

UST I desire that my enemies will go down alive
⇔ to the place where the dead people are.
⇔ I want this because they do evil things in their homes.

BSB  ⇔ Let death seize them by surprise;
⇔ let them go down to Sheol alive,
⇔ for evil is with them in their homes.

OEB May death suddenly take them,
⇔ may they go down to Sheol alive,
⇔ for evil lives in their homes and their hearts.

WEB Let death come suddenly on them.
⇔ Let them go down alive into Sheol.[fn]
⇔ For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

55:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.

NET May death destroy them!
 ⇔ May they go down alive into Sheol!
 ⇔ For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

LSV Desolations [are] on them,
They go down [to] Sheol—alive,
For wickedness [is] in their dwelling, in their midst.

FBV May death come quickly to them; may they go down into the grave alive, because evil finds its home in them.

T4T  ⇔ I desire/hope that my enemies will die suddenly;
⇔ while they are still young, cause them to go down to the place where the dead people are.
⇔ They they think evil things.

LEB • because evil is in their home and[fn]

?:? Literally “inward part”

BBE Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

MOF May he go to perdition!
⇔ Death seize all such!
 ⇔ May they go living to the world below,
⇔ swept off as their sins deserve!

JPS (55-16) May He incite death against them, let them go down alive into the nether-world; for evil is in their dwelling, and within them.

ASV Let death come suddenly upon them,
 ⇔ Let them go down alive into Sheol;
 ⇔ For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

DRA No DRA PSA 55:15 verse available

YLT Desolations [are] upon them, They go down [to] Sheol — alive, For wickedness [is] in their dwelling, in their midst.

DBY Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.

RV Let death come suddenly upon them, let them go down alive into the pit: for wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

WBS Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

KJB Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.[fn]
(Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.)

55.15 hell: or, the grave

BB Let death sodainly come vpon them, let them go downe quicke into hell: for wickednes is in their dwellinges and among them.
(Let death sodainly come upon them, let them go down quicke into hell: for wickednes is in their dwellings and among them.)

GNV Let death sense vpon them: let them goe downe quicke into the graue: for wickednes is in their dwellings, euen in the middes of them.
(Let death sense upon them: let them go down quicke into the graue: for wickednes is in their dwellings, even in the middes of them. )

CB As for me, I will call vnto God, and the LORDE shall helpe me.
(As for me, I will call unto God, and the LORD shall help me.)

WYC No WYC PSA 55:15 verse available

LUT die wir freundlich miteinander waren unter uns; wir wandelten im Hause Gottes zu Haufen.
(die wir freundlich miteinander waren under uns; wir wandelten in_the Hause God’s to Haufen.)

CLV No CLV PSA 55:15 verse available

BRN No BRN PSA 55:15 verse available

BrLXX No BrLXX PSA 55:15 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

Let death come suddenly on them

(Some words not found in UHB: which/who together take_sweet counsel in=house_of ʼₑlhīmv walked in/on/at/with,throng )

Death is spoken of as if it were a person that could attack people. Alternate translation: “Let my enemies die suddenly”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

let them go down alive to Sheol

(Some words not found in UHB: which/who together take_sweet counsel in=house_of ʼₑlhīmv walked in/on/at/with,throng )

Dying suddenly is spoken of as if people were to go to Sheol so fast that they do not even die first. Alternate translation: “let them suddenly go to Sheol”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

wickedness is where they live

(Some words not found in UHB: which/who together take_sweet counsel in=house_of ʼₑlhīmv walked in/on/at/with,throng )

Wickedness is spoken of as if it were a thing that could be in a certain place. The habitual wickedness of his enemies is spoken of as if wickedness were with them or near them. Alternate translation: “they always do wicked things where they live”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

right among them

(Some words not found in UHB: which/who together take_sweet counsel in=house_of ʼₑlhīmv walked in/on/at/with,throng )

This phrase intensifies the idea of wickedness being very near them. Here wickedness is spoken of as being not only in their homes, but right where they are. Alternate translation: “They always do wicked things wherever they are” or “wherever they are”

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