MIC 1:12 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences 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 Τίς ἥρξατο εἰς ἀγαθὰ κατοικούσῃ ὀδύνας; ὅτι κατέβη κακὰ παρὰ Κυρίου ἐπὶ πύλας Ἱερουσαλὴμ,
(Tis haʸrxato eis agatha katoikousaʸ odunas; hoti katebaʸ kaka para Kuriou epi pulas Hierousalaʸm, )

BrTr Who has begun to act for good to her that dwells in sorrow? for calamities have come down from the Lord upon the gates of Jerusalem,

ULT For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good,
⇔ because disaster has come down from Yahweh
⇔ to the gates of Jerusalem.

UST The people of Maroth
⇔ are anxiously waiting for good things to happen to them.
⇔ But I will make terrible things to happen to them,
⇔ and they will soon happen at the gates of Jerusalem.”

BSB For the dwellers of Maroth[fn] pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
⇔ 
⇔ 
⇔

MSB For the dwellers of Maroth[fn] pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
⇔ 
⇔ 
⇔

OEB The inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good!
⇔ But the Lord has sent disaster to the gates of Jerusalem.

WEBBE For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good,
⇔ because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Indeed, the residents of Maroth hope for something good to happen,
⇔ though the Lord has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem.

LSV For the inhabitant of Maroth has stayed for good,
For calamity has come down from YHWH to the gate of Jerusalem.

FBV The people of Maroth wait anxiously for relief, but disaster has come down from the Lord on the gate of Jerusalem.

T4T The name of Maroth town sounds like ‘bitterness;’
⇔ everyone there is anxiously waiting for good things to happen to them,
⇔ but good things will not happen to them;
⇔ instead, terrible things are about to happen to them,
⇔ and it will soon happen at the gates of Jerusalem.

LEB No LEB MIC book available

BBE For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.

Moff No Moff MIC book available

JPS For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good; because evil is come down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

ASV For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

DRA For she is become weak unto good that dwelleth in bitterness: for evil is come down from the Lord into the gate of Jerusalem.

YLT For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

Drby For the inhabitress of Maroth waited anxiously for good; but evil hath come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

RV For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good: because evil is come down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
(For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth/waits anxiously for good: because evil is come down from the LORD unto the gate of Yerusalem. )

SLT For she dwelling in bitterness was anxious for good: but evil came down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

Wbstr For the inhabitant of Maroth waited anxiously for good: but evil came down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

KJB-1769 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.[fn][fn]
(For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Yerusalem. )

1.12 inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress

1.12 waited…: or, was grieved

KJB-1611 For the inhabitant of Maroth [fn]waited carefully for good, but euill came downe from the LORD vnto the gate of Ierusalem.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

1:12 Or, was grieued.

Bshps No Bshps MIC book available

Gnva For the inhabitant of Maroth wayted for good, but euill came from the Lord vnto the gate of Ierusalem.
(For the inhabitant of Maroth waited for good, but evil came from the Lord unto the gate of Yerusalem. )

Cvdl No Cvdl MIC book available

Wycl No Wycl MIC book available

Luth No Luth MIC book available

ClVg Quia infirmata est in bonum, quæ habitat in amaritudinibus; quia descendit malum a Domino in portam Jerusalem.
(Because weakta it_is in/into/on good, which he_lives in/into/on bitterness; because came_down evil from Master in/into/on the_gate Yerusalem. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT MIC book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

(Occurrence 0) Maroth

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when wait_anxiously for,good inhabitants_of Mārōt that/for/because/then/when come_down disaster from,with YHWH to,gate_of Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem) )

The name of this city means “bitterness.”

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

(Occurrence 0) disaster has come down from Yahweh

The abstract noun disaster is spoken of here as a solid object rolling down a hill. If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea behind the word disaster, you can express the same idea with a verbal form. Alternate translation: “Yahweh has caused bad things to happen”

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