Verse List for PSA 34:14

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B I ◄ ← Psa 34:14 ↓ → ► ═ ©

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

OET (OET-RV) Turn away from evil ⇔ ≈ and do good. ⇔ Seek peace ⇔ ≈ and go after it.

OET-LV [fn] turn _away from_evil and_do good seek peace and_pursue_it.

ULT Turn away from evil and do good; ⇔  seek peace and pursue it.

UST Stop doing what is evil and instead do what is good; ⇔  always strive to live peacefully with others.

BSB & MSB Turn away from evil and do good; ⇔  seek peace and pursue it.

OEB Depart from evil, and do good; ⇔  seek peace, and pursue it.

WEBBE & WMBB Depart from evil, and do good. ⇔  Seek peace, and pursue it.

NET Turn away from evil and do what is right! ⇔ Strive for peace and promote it!

LSV Turn aside from evil and do good,
Seek peace and pursue it.

FBV Reject what is evil, do what is good. Look for peace, and work to make it a reality.

T4T Turn away from doing evil, and do what is good! ⇔  Always try hard to enable people to live peacefully with each other.

LEB • Turn from evil and do good.
• Seek peace and pursue it.

BBE Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

Moff shun evil and do good, ⇔  seek to be friendly—aim at that.

JPS (34-15) Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

ASV Depart from evil, and do good; ⇔ Seek peace, and pursue it.

DRA As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.

YLT Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it.

Drby Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

RV Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

SLT Turn away from evil, and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Wbstr Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

KJB-1769 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

KJB-1611 Depart from euill, and doe good: seeke peace and pursue it.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Eschewe euill & do good: seeke peace and ensue it.
(Eschewe evil and do good: seek peace and ensue it.)

Gnva Eschewe euill and doe good: seeke peace and follow after it.
(Eschewe evil and do good: seek peace and follow after it.)

Cvdl Let him eschue euell, and do good: Let him seke peace & ensue it.
(Let him eschue evil, and do good: Let him seek peace and ensue it.)

Wycl I pleside so as oure neiybore, as oure brother; Y was `maad meke so as morenynge and sorewful.
(I pleased so as our neighbour, as our brother; I was made meek so as mourning and sorewful.)

Luth Behüte deine Zunge vor Bösem und deine Lippen, daß sie nicht falsch reden.
(Protect your tongue before/in_front_of evil/evil_(person) and your lips, that they/she/them not false/incorrect talk(v).)

ClVg Quasi proximum et quasi fratrem nostrum sic complacebam; quasi lugens et contristatus sic humiliabar.[fn]
(As_if next_door and as_if brother our so complacebam; as_if mourning and saddened so humiliabar.)

UHB 15 ס֣וּר מֵ֭⁠רָע וַ⁠עֲשֵׂה־ט֑וֹב בַּקֵּ֖שׁ שָׁל֣וֹם וְ⁠רָדְפֵֽ⁠הוּ׃ ‡

BrLXX Ὡς πλησίον ὡς ἀδελφὸν ἡμέτερον οὕτως εὐηρέστουν, ὡς πενθῶν καὶ σκυθρωπάξων οὕτως ἐταπεινούμην.

BrTr I behaved agreeably towards them as if it had been our neighbour or brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.