JDG 5:3 Parallel Verse View

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

OET (OET-RV) Listen you kings.
⇔ ≈Pay attention you rulers.
⇔ I will sing to Yahweh, yes, even me.
⇔ ≈I will make music for Yisrael’s God Yahweh.

Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim, 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 Ἀκούσατε βασιλεῖς, καὶ ἐνωτίσασθε σατράπαι· ᾄσομαι ἐγώ εἰμι τῷ Κυρίῳ ἐγώ εἰμι, ψαλῶ τῷ Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ Ἰσραήλ.
(Akousate basileis, kai enōtisasthe satrapai; asomai egō eimi tōi Kuriōi egō eimi, psalō tōi Kuriōi tōi Theōi Israaʸl. )

BrTr Hear, ye kings, and hearken, rulers: I will sing, it is I who will sing to the Lord, it is I, I will sing a psalm to the Lord the God of Israel.

ULT Listen, kings! Give ear, rulers! I, to Yahweh, even I, may I sing.
⇔ I will make music to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

UST Even the most important people in the world
⇔ should pay attention to this!
⇔ I am going to sing to Yahweh.
⇔ With this song, I will praise Yahweh, the God of Israel.

BSB Listen, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.
⇔ 
⇔ 
⇔ 

MSB Listen, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.
⇔ 
⇔ 
⇔ 

OEB No OEB JDG book available

CSB Listen, kings! Pay attention, princes! I will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.

NLT “Listen, you kings! Pay attention, you mighty rulers! For I will sing to the LORD. I will make music to the LORD, the God of Israel.

NIV “Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers! I, even I, will sing to the LORD; I will praise the LORD, the God of Israel, in song.

CEV Listen, kings and rulers, while I sing for the LORD, the God of Israel.

ESV “Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the LORD I will sing; I will make melody to the LORD, the God of Israel.

NASB “Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers! I— to the LORD, I will sing, I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.

LSB Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers! As for me, to Yahweh, I will sing; I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

WEBBE ⇔ “Hear, you kings!
⇔ Give ear, you princes!
⇔ I, even I, will sing to the LORD.
⇔ I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.

WMBB (Same as above)

MSG Hear O kings! Listen O princes!
To God, yes to God, I’ll sing,
Make music to God,
to the God of Israel.

NET Hear, O kings!
⇔ Pay attention, O rulers!
⇔ I will sing to the Lord!
⇔ I will sing to the Lord God of Israel!

LSV Hear, you kings; give ear, you princes,
I sing to YHWH,
I sing praise to YHWH, God of Israel.

FBV Listen, kings! Pay attention, rulers! I, yes I, will sing to the Lord; I will praise the Lord, the God of Israel, in song.

T4T Listen, you kings! Pay attention, you leaders!
⇔ I will sing to Yahweh. With this song I will praise Yahweh, the God we Israelis worship.

LEB No LEB JDG book available

NRSV “Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the LORD I will sing, I will make melody to the LORD, the God of Israel.

NKJV “Hear, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I, even I, will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.

NAB Hear, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing, I will sing to the
d LORD
d*, I will make music to the
d LORD
d*, the God of Israel.

BBE Give attention, O kings; give ear, O rulers; I, even I, will make a song to the Lord; I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Moff No Moff JDG book available

JPS Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, unto the LORD will I sing; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.

ASV Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes;
⇔ I, even I, will sing unto Jehovah;
⇔ I will sing praise to Jehovah, the God of Israel.

DRA Hear, O ye kings, give ear, ye princes: It is I, it is I, that will sing to the Lord, I will sing to the Lord the God of Israel.

YLT Hear, ye kings; give ear, ye princes, I, to Jehovah, I — I do sing, I sing praise to Jehovah, God of Israel.

Drby Hear, ye kings; give ear, ye princes, I, [even] I, will sing to Jehovah; I will hymn to Jehovah the [fn]God of Israel.

5.3 Elohim

RV Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.
(Hear, Oh ye/you_all kings; give ear, Oh ye/you_all princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel. )

SLT Hear, ye kings; give ear ye princes; I, to Jehovah, will I sing; I will play to Jehovah, God of Israel.

Wbstr Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.

KJB-1769 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
(Hear, Oh ye/you_all kings; give ear, Oh ye/you_all princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. )

KJB-1611 Heare, O ye kings, giue eare, O ye Princes: I, euen I will sing vnto the LORD, I wil sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps No Bshps JDG book available

Gnva Heare, ye Kings, hearken ye princes: I, euen I will sing vnto the Lord: I will sing praise vnto the Lord God of Israel.
(Hear, ye/you_all Kings, hearken ye/you_all princes: I, even I will sing unto the Lord: I will sing praise unto the Lord God of Israel. )

Cvdl No Cvdl JDG book available

Wycl No Wycl JDG book available

Luth No Luth JDG book available

ClVg Audite, reges; auribus percipite, principes: ego sum, ego sum, quæ Domino canam, psallam Domino Deo Israël.
(Listen, kings; in_the_ears percipite, leaders: I I_am, I I_am, which Master canam, to_dance Master to_God Israel. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT JDG book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / apostrophe

שִׁמְע֣וּ מְלָכִ֔ים הַאֲזִ֖ינוּ רֹֽזְנִ֑ים

hear kings give_ear princes

Deborah and Barak are speaking to two groups that they know cannot hear them. They are doing this to show in a strong way how they feel about the story they are telling in their song. They feel that it is worth the attention of the most important people in the world. They are actually speaking to all the people who can hear them or who will hear them. ([5:10–11](../05/10.md) indicates that this includes people from throughout Israelite society.) If your readers might not understand what Deborah and Barak are doing, you could translate their words as if they were speaking directly to people who were present. Alternate translation: [This story deserves to be heard by kings and rulers!]

Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns

אָֽנֹכִ֗י לַֽ⁠יהוָה֙ אָנֹכִ֣י אָשִׁ֔ירָה אֲזַמֵּ֕ר

I to/for=YHWH I sing sing_praise

If your language marks first-person singular pronouns or verbs for gender, see the discussion in the Notes to this chapter for a suggestion of how to mark the instances of I here.

Note 3 topic: translate-tense

אָשִׁ֔ירָה

sing

The speaker here is not asking permission. He is using a particular verb tense to encourage himself to do something. If your language does not use this type of verb, in your translation you can use an equivalent type. Alternate translation: [I certainly should sing]

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