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

Key: khaki:verbs, green:YHWH.
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).

BrLXX Καὶ ἀπεκρίθη πρὸς μὲ Κύριος, καὶ εἶπε, γράψον ὅρασιν, καὶ σαφῶς εἰς πυξίον, ὅπως διώκῃ ὁ ἀναγινώσκων αὐτά.
(Kai apekrithaʸ pros me Kurios, kai eipe, grapson horasin, kai safōs eis puxion, hopōs diōkaʸ ho anaginōskōn auta. )

BrTr And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision, and that plainly on a tablet, that he that reads it may run.

ULT Yahweh answered me and said,
⇔ “Record this vision, and write plainly on the tablets so that the one reading them might run.

UST Then Yahweh replied to me,
⇔ “Write plainly on tablets what I am revealing to you in this vision,
⇔ and then read it to a messenger
⇔ so he can run with it to tell it to other people.

BSB Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.
⇔ 
⇔ 
⇔ 

OEB Then the Lord answered me and said:
⇔ Inscribe the vision plainly on tablets,
⇔ so that even someone running by could read it.

WEBBE The LORD answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET The Lord responded:
⇔ “Write down this message! Record it legibly on tablets,
⇔ so the one who announces it may read it easily.

LSV And YHWH answers me and says: “Write a vision, and explain on the tablets,
That he may run who is reading it.

FBV Then the Lord told me, Write down the vision, inscribe it on tablets, so it can be easily read.[fn]

2:2 Literally, “so he who runs can read it.”

T4T Then Yahweh replied to me,
⇔ “Write plainly on tablets what I am revealing to you in this vision,
⇔ and then read it to a messenger
⇔ in order that he can run with it to tell it to other people.

LEB No LEB HAB book available

BBE And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly.

Moff No Moff HAB book available

JPS And the LORD answered me, and said: 'Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that a man may read it swiftly.

ASV And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.

DRA And the Lord answered me, and said: Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables: that he that readeth it may run over it.

YLT And Jehovah answereth me and saith: 'Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it.

Drby And Jehovah answered me and said, Write the vision, and engrave it upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.

RV And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

SLT And Jehovah will answer me and say, Write the vision, and grave upon the tablets, so that he shall run reading in it.

Wbstr And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

KJB-1769 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

KJB-1611 And the LORD answered me and said, write the vision, and make it plaine vpon tables, that he may runne that readeth it.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps No Bshps HAB book available

Gnva And the Lord answered me, and sayde, Write the vision, and make it plaine vpon tables, that he may runne that readeth it.
(And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. )

Cvdl No Cvdl HAB book available

Wycl No Wycl HAB book available

Luth No Luth HAB book available

ClVg Et respondit mihi Dominus, et dixit: [Scribe visum, et explana eum super tabulas, ut percurrat qui legerit eum.
(And answered to_me Master, and he_said: [Scribe visum, and explana him over tabulas, as percurrat who lawfullyrit him. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT HAB book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

General Information:

Yahweh answers Habakkuk.

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

(Occurrence 0) Record this vision, and write plainly on the tablets

(Some words not found in UHB: and,answered,me YHWH and=he/it_said write vision and,make_~_plain on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the,tablets so_that run read in=him/it )

Both of these phrases are saying the same thing in two different ways. Alternate translation: “Write this vision clearly on the tablets”

(Occurrence 0) tablets

(Some words not found in UHB: and,answered,me YHWH and=he/it_said write vision and,make_~_plain on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the,tablets so_that run read in=him/it )

These are flat pieces of stone or clay that were used for writing.

Parallel HAB 2:2

General Information: