JER 31:2 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=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 Οὐκ ἔστιν ἔτι ἰατρεία Μωὰβ, γαυρίαμα ἐν Ἐσεβὼν, ἐλογίσατο ἐπʼ αὐτὴν κακά· ἐκόψαμεν αὐτὴν ἀπὸ ἔθνους, καὶ παῦσιν παύσεται· ὄπισθέν σου βαδιεῖται μάχαιρα,
(Ouk estin eti iatreia Mōab, gauriama en Esebōn, elogisato epʼ autaʸn kaka; ekopsamen autaʸn apo ethnous, kai pausin pausetai; opisthen sou badieitai maⱪaira, )

BrTr There is no longer any healing for Moab, nor glorying in Esebon: he has devised evils against her: we have cut her off from being a nation, and she shall be completely still: after thee shall go a sword;

ULT Yahweh says this,
⇔ “The people who have survived the sword have found favor in the wilderness; I will go out to give rest to Israel.”

UST This is what Yahweh says:
⇔ “Those people who remained alive and were not killed by their enemies’ swords
⇔ were blessed by me even in the desert;
⇔ where they survived.

BSB § This is what the LORD says:
⇔ “The people who survived the sword
⇔ found favor in the wilderness
⇔ when Israel went to find rest.”

OEB Thus saith Jehovah:
⇔ The people escaped from the sword
⇔ shall most surely find grace in the wilderness.
⇔ When Israel seeketh for rest,

WEBBE The LORD says, “The people who survive the sword found favour in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”

WMBB (Same as above)

NET The Lord says,
⇔ “The people of Israel who survived
⇔ death at the hands of the enemy
⇔ will find favor in the wilderness
⇔ as they journey to find rest for themselves.

LSV Thus said YHWH: “A people remaining from the sword
Have found grace in the wilderness
When Israel went to find rest.”

FBV This is what the Lord says: The Israelites who survive death by the sword were blessed by the Lord in the desert as they looked for peace and quiet.

T4T This is what Yahweh says:
⇔ “Those people who remained alive and were not killed by their enemies’ swords
⇔ were blessed by me even in the desert;
⇔ I enabled them to have peace.

LEB • Thus says Yahweh:“The people of the survivors of the sword found grace in the desert;[fn] • Israel going to find their rest.”

31:2 Or “wilderness”

BBE The Lord has said, Grace came in the waste land to a people kept safe from the sword, even to Israel on the way to his resting-place.

Moff No Moff JER book available

JPS Thus saith the LORD: The people that were left of the sword have found grace in the wilderness, even Israel, when I go to cause him to rest.

ASV Thus saith Jehovah, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

DRA Thus saith the Lord: The people were left and escaped from the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall to his rest.

YLT Thus said Jehovah: Found grace in the wilderness Hath a people remaining from the sword Going to cause it to rest — Israel.

Drby Thus saith Jehovah: The people [that were] left of the sword have found grace in the wilderness, [even] Israel, when I go to give him rest.

RV Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

Wbstr Thus saith the LORD, The people who were left by the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

KJB-1769 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
(Thus saith/says the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. )

KJB-1611 Thus saith the LORD; The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wildernesse, euen Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Thus saith the Lord: The people of Israel which escaped in the wildernesse from the sworde, founde grace to come into their rest.
(Thus saith/says the Lord: The people of Israel which escaped in the wilderness from the sword, found grace to come into their rest.)

Gnva Thus saith the Lord, The people which escaped the sworde, founde grace in the wildernes: he walked before Israel to cause him to rest.
(Thus saith/says the Lord, The people which escaped the sword, found grace in the wilderness: he walked before Israel to cause him to rest. )

Cvdl Thus saieth the LORDE: The people of Israel which escaped in ye wildernes from the swearde, founde grace to come in to their rest.
(Thus saith/says the LORD: The people of Israel which escaped in ye/you_all wilderness from the swearde, found grace to come in to their rest.)

Wycl The Lord seith these thingis, The puple that was left of swerd, foond grace in desert; Israel schal go to his reste.
(The Lord saith/says these things, The people that was left of sword, found grace in desert; Israel shall go to his reste.)

Luth So spricht der HErr: Das Volk, so überblieben ist vom Schwert, hat Gnade funden in der Wüste; Israel zeucht hin zu seiner Ruhe.
(So says the/of_the LORD: The people, so left-over is from_the Schwert, has Gnade funden in the/of_the desert; Israel zeucht there to his Ruhe.)

ClVg Hæc dicit Dominus: Invenit gratiam in deserto populus qui remanserat a gladio: vadet ad requiem suam Israël.
(This he_says Master: Invenit gratiam in desert populus who remanserat from gladio: vadet to requiem his_own Israel. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

(Occurrence 0) The people who have survived the sword have found favor in the wilderness

(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said YHWH he/it_found graciousness/kindness/favour/beauty in/on/at/with,wilderness people survived sword went to,find_~_rest,their Yisrael )

The phrase “found favor” is an idiom. Alternate translation: “While the people who have survived the sword have been in the wilderness, I have had grace on them”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

(Occurrence 0) who have survived the sword

(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said YHWH he/it_found graciousness/kindness/favour/beauty in/on/at/with,wilderness people survived sword went to,find_~_rest,their Yisrael )

The word “sword” is a metonym for war. Alternate translation: “who have survived the war”

(Occurrence 0) wilderness; I will go out to give rest to Israel

(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said YHWH he/it_found graciousness/kindness/favour/beauty in/on/at/with,wilderness people survived sword went to,find_~_rest,their Yisrael )

Another possible meaning is “wilderness, where Israel went out to find rest.”

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