Verse List for PSA 139:11

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) If I said, “Surely the darkness will cover me, ⇔ and the light will become night around me,”

OET-LV Also darkness not it _is_too_dark for_you and_night like_day it _shines as/like as.

ULT And I said, “Surely darkness will crush me, ⇔  and night, the light around me.”

UST Even if I said, “Let the darkness completely overwhelm me, ⇔  and the light around me turn to night,”

BSB & MSB If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, ⇔  and the light become night around me”—

OEB ⇔  If I say, ‘Let the darkness cover me, ⇔  and night be the light about me,’

WEBBE & WMBB If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. ⇔  The light around me will be night,”

NET If I were to say, “Certainly the darkness will cover me, ⇔ and the light will turn to night all around me,”

LSV And I say, “Surely darkness bruises me,”
Then night [is] light to me.

FBV If I asked the darkness to hide me, and light to become night around me,

T4T ⇔  I could request the darkness to hide me, ⇔ or I could request the light around me to become darkness,

LEB • And if I should say, “Surely darkness will cover me,
• and the light around me will be as night,”

BBE If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

Moff If I say “The dark will screen me, ⇔  the night will hide me in its curtains,”

JPS And if I say: 'Surely the darkness shall envelop me, and the light about me shall be night';

ASV If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, ⇔ And the light about me shall be night;

DRA Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.

YLT And I say, 'Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night [is] light to me.

Drby And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;

RV If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, and the light about me shall be night;

SLT And saying, surely the darkness shall fall upon me; and the night shone about me.

Wbstr If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

KJB-1769 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

KJB-1611 If I say, Surely the darkenes shall couer me: euen the night shall bee light about me.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps And yf I say peraduenture the darknesse shall couer me: and the night shalbe day for me,
(And if I say peradventure/perhaps the darkness shall cover me: and the night shall be day for me,)

Gnva If I say, Yet the darkenes shall hide me, euen the night shalbe light about me.
(If I say, Yet the darkness shall hide me, even the night shall be light about me.)

Cvdl Yee the darcknesse is no darcknesse with the, but the night is as cleare as the daye, the darcknesse & light are both alike.
(Ye/You_all the darkness is no darkness with them, but the night is as clear as the day, the darkness and light are both alike.)

Wycl Colis schulen falle on hem, thou schalt caste hem doun in to fier; in wretchidnessis thei schulen not stonde.
(Colis should fall on hem, thou/you shalt/shall cast/threw hem down in to fire; in wretchednessis they should not stand.)

Luth Spräche ich: Finsternis möge mich decken, so muß die Nacht auch Licht um mich sein;
(Spräche I: darkness may me cover(v), so must the night also light(n) around/by/for me be;)

ClVg Cadent super eos carbones; in ignem dejicies eos: in miseriis non subsistent.[fn]
(They_fall over them coals; in/into/on fire deyicies them: in/into/on miseriis not/no subsistent.)

UHB וָ֭⁠אֹמַר אַךְ־חֹ֣שֶׁךְ יְשׁוּפֵ֑⁠נִי וְ֝⁠לַ֗יְלָה א֣וֹר בַּעֲדֵֽ⁠נִי׃ ‡

BrLXX Πεσοῦνται ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἄνθρακες πυρὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ καταβαλεῖς αὐτοὺς ἐν ταλαιπωρίαις, οὐ μὴ ὑποστῶσιν.

BrTr Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; and thou shalt cast them down in afflictions: they shall not bear up under them.