PSA 58:2 Parallel View

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ULT No, you commit wickedness in your heart;
 ⇔ you distribute violence throughout the land with your hands.

UST No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong,
⇔ and you commit violent crimes everywhere in this land of Israel.

BSB No, in your hearts you devise injustice;
⇔ with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

OEB In the land you practise iniquity – all of you;
⇔ violence do you dispense with your hands.

WEB No, in your heart you plot injustice.
⇔ You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

NET No! You plan how to do what is unjust;
 ⇔ you deal out violence in the earth.

LSV Even in heart you work iniquities,
In the land you ponder the violence of your hands.

FBV No, for in your minds you plan evil. You cause violence everywhere!

T4T No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong,
⇔ and you commit violent crimes in this land of Israel.

LEB • your heart you plan injustices; in the land[fn] you weigh out the violence of your hands.

?:? Or “on the earth”

BBE The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

MOF No, in secret you devise injustice,
⇔ and on earth you deal out violence.

JPS (58-3) Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.

ASV Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;
 ⇔ Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

DRA Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me.

YLT Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

DBY Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

RV Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

WBS Yes, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

KJB Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
(Yea, in heart ye/you_all work wickedness; ye/you_all weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. )

BB Nay, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your handes waygh as in a ballaunce wickednes vpon the earth.
(Nay, rather ye/you_all imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands waygh as in a ballaunce wickednes upon the earth.)

GNV Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
(Yea, rather ye/you_all imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie upon the earth. )

CB But ye ymagin myschefe in youre hertes, and youre hondes deale with wickednesse.
(But ye/you_all ymagin myschefe in your(pl) hearts, and your(pl) hands deale with wickedness.)

WYC Mi God, delyuer thou me fro myn enemyes; and delyuer thou me fro hem that risen ayens me.
(Mi God, deliver thou/you me from mine enemyes; and deliver thou/you me from them that risen against me.)

LUT Seid ihr denn stumm, daß ihr nicht reden wollt, was recht ist; und richten, was gleich ist, ihr Menschenkinder?
(Seid her because stumm, that her not reden wollt, was recht ist; and richten, was gleich is, her Menschenkinder?)

CLV [Eripe me de inimicis meis, Deus meus, et ab insurgentibus in me libera me.[fn]
([Eripe me about inimicis meis, God mine, and away insurgentibus in me libera me.)

58.2 Eripe. Ibid. Dum qui sine macula est, hoc petit, quid necessario petamus, ostendit. De inimicis. CASS. Quatuor genera sunt adversariorum, etc., usque ad de his ergo ait: Eripe me, etc.

58.2 Eripe. Ibid. Dum who without macula it_is, hoc petit, quid necessario petamus, ostendit. De inimicis. CASS. Quatuor genera are adversariorum, etc., usque to about his ergo ait: Eripe me, etc.

BRN Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me.

BrLXX Ἐξελοῦ με ἐκ τῶν ἐχθρῶν μου ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐπανισταμένων ἐπʼ ἐμὲ λύτρωσαί με.
(Exelou me ek tōn eⱪthrōn mou ho Theos, kai ek tōn epanistamenōn epʼ eme lutrōsai me. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / you

you & your

(Some words not found in UHB: ?,indeed gods what_is_right speak, fairly judge sons_of humankind )

The words “you” and “your” refer to the mighty men who are judges (Psalm 58:1) and so is plural.

(Some words not found in UHB: ?,indeed gods what_is_right speak, fairly judge sons_of humankind )

The author answers the two questions he had just asked.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

you commit wickedness in your heart

(Some words not found in UHB: ?,indeed gods what_is_right speak, fairly judge sons_of humankind )

The heart refers to the people’s thoughts or plans. Alternate translation: “you commit wickedness in your thoughts” or “you think about doing wicked things”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

you distribute violence throughout the land with your hands

(Some words not found in UHB: ?,indeed gods what_is_right speak, fairly judge sons_of humankind )

Doing violence in various places throughout the land is spoken of as distributing or spreading the violence throughout the land, as if violence were some kind of stuff or things. Alternate translation: “you yourselves do violent deeds everywhere in the land”

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