PSA 102:6 Parallel Verse View

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Original PSA 102:7: Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
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 (PSA 101:7) Ὡμοιώθην πελεκᾶνι ἐρημικῷ, ἐγενήθην ὡσεὶ νυκτικόραξ ἐν οἰκοπέδῳ.
(Hōmoiōthaʸn pelekani eraʸmikōi, egenaʸthaʸn hōsei nuktikorax en oikopedōi.)

ULT I am like an owl of the wilderness;
⇔ I have become like a screech owl in the ruins.

UST I am lonely and despised like an owl in the desert;
⇔ I have become like a screech owl in the ruins of a town.

BSB I am like a desert owl,
⇔ like an owl among the ruins.

OEB ⇔ Like a desert-owl of the wilderness,
⇔ like an owl among ruins am I.

WEBBE I am like a pelican of the wilderness.
⇔ I have become as an owl of the waste places.

NET I am like an owl in the wilderness;
⇔ I am like a screech owl among the ruins.

LSV I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness,
I have been as an owl of the dry places.

FBV I'm like a desert owl,[fn] like a little owl among the ruins.

102:6 “Owl”: some identify this bird as a pelican or cormorant.

T4T I am like a lonely and despised vulture in the desert,
⇔ like an owl by itself in the abandoned ruins of a building/city.

LEB • I am like an owl[fn] of the wilderness;
• I am like a little owl of the ruins.

102:? The identity of the birds in this verse is uncertain

BBE I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.

Moff ⇔ I am like a pelican in the desert,
⇔ like an owl moping in the ruins;

JPS (PSA 102:7) (102-8) I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

ASV I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
⇔ I am become as an owl of the waste places.

DRA (PSA 101:7) I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.

YLT I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.

Drby I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an owl in desolate places;

RV I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

SLT I was like to the pelican of the desert: I was as the owl of the dry places.

Wbstr I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

KJB-1769 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

KJB-1611 I am like a Pelican of the wildernes: I am like an owle of the desert.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation)

Bshps I am become lyke a Pellicane of the wildernesse, and like an Owle that is in the desert:
(I am become like a Pelican of the wilderness, and like an Owl that is in the desert:)

Gnva I am like a pelicane of the wildernesse: I am like an owle of the deserts.
(I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the deserts.)

Cvdl I am become like a Pellicane in the wildernes, and like an Oule in a broken wall.
(I am become like a Pelican in the wilderness, and like an Owl in a broken wall.)

Wycl (PSA 101:7) I am maad lijk a pellican of wildirnesse; Y am maad as a niyt crowe in an hous.
(I am made like a pelican of wilderness; I am made as a night crow in an house.)

Luth (PSA 102:7) Ich bin gleich wie eine Rohrdommel in der Wüste; ich bin gleich wie ein Käuzlein in den verstörten Stätten.
(I am even as/like a/one bittern_marsh_bird in the/of_the desert; I am even as/like a little_owl in the disturbed sites/places.)

ClVg (PSA 101:7) Similis factus sum pellicano solitudinis; factus sum sicut nycticorax in domicilio.[fn]
(Similar became I_am pelican loneliness; became I_am like night_raven in/into/on residence.)

101.7 Pelicano, etc. AUG. Tres aves, tria loca ponit, etc., usque ad qui si non inter homines, extra est in alto, dicens eis, qui in nocte dormiunt. Vel, passer sagax ad alta virtutum fugit, ubi tutus a laqueis. Qui solitarius vel unicus, propter charitatem quem ex multis unum facit est in tecto, vel ædificio propter altitudinem fidei, ut non descendat aliquid tollere de domo, id est carne. Domicilio. ID. Vel parietinis, quæ vulgo dicuntur ruinæ, ubi parietes stant sine tecto, ubi habitat nycticorax avis, quæ noctem amat.

101.7 Pelican, etc. AUG. Three birds, three places puts, etc., until to who/which when/but_if not/no between people/men, outside it_is in/into/on high, saying to_them, who/which in/into/on at_night they_sleep. Or, sparrow discerning to high virtues he_fled, where tutus from nooses. Who solitary/alone or unique, because charity which from many one he/it_does it_is in/into/on roof, or building because height of_faith, as not/no descend something to_remove from/about at_home, that it_is flesh/meat. Residence. ID. Or old_walls, which generally are_said fall/ruins, where walls stand without roof, where he_lives night_raven bird, which the_night loves.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

דָּ֭מִיתִי לִ⁠קְאַ֣ת מִדְבָּ֑ר הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כְּ⁠כ֣וֹס חֳרָבֽוֹת

(Some words not found in UHB: like (to)_a,desert_owl_of wilderness am like,an_owl_of ruins )

The psalmist is using two comparisons to describe his lonely and desolate condition. The point of those two comparisons is that just as an owl of the wilderness and a screech owl in the ruins are solitary creatures in desolate places, so is the psalmist in his distress. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this point explicitly. Alternate translation: [I have become as solitary and lonely as an owl of the wilderness or as a screech owl in the ruins]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

לִ⁠קְאַ֣ת מִדְבָּ֑ר

(to)_a,desert_owl_of (Some words not found in UHB: like (to)_a,desert_owl_of wilderness am like,an_owl_of ruins )

The psalmist is using the possessive form to describe an owl that is characterized by the wilderness. If a speaker of your language would not use the possessive form for this, you could express this idea in another way. Alternate translation: [an owl that lives in the wilderness]

Note 3 topic: translate-unknown

לִ⁠קְאַ֣ת

(to)_a,desert_owl_of

The word translated as “owl” here is obscure. Most scholars believe that the word refers to a type of owl. The ancient Greek translation used the word for “pelican” here, and that was followed by some older versions, although a pelican is a water bird that cannot live in a dry wilderness. If “pelican” is correct, then the psalmist is saying that he feels as though he is living in a place where he cannot survive. If “owl” is correct, then the psalmist is saying that he feels alone and abandoned. You may want to use the word that the major translation in your area uses.

Parallel PSA 102:6