PSA 103:4 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) He buys you back from the pit to save your life.
⇔ He honours you with his compassion and loyal commitment.

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 Ὁ ποιῶν τοὺς ἀγγέλους αὐτοῦ πνεύματα, καὶ τοὺς λειτουργοὺς αὐτοῦ πῦρ φλέγον·
(Ho poiōn tous angelous autou pneumata, kai tous leitourgous autou pur flegon; )

ULT He redeems your life from destruction;
⇔ he crowns you with steadfastness and mercy.

UST he keeps me from dying,
⇔ and he blesses me by faithfully loving me and acting mercifully to me as he promised to do.

BSB who redeems your life from the Pit [and] crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
⇔ 

MSB who redeems your life from the Pit [and] crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
⇔ 

OEB He ransoms your life from the pit,
⇔ he crowns you with kindness and pity.

WEBBE who redeems your life from destruction,
⇔ who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET who delivers your life from the Pit,
⇔ who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,

LSV Who is redeeming your life from destruction,
Who is crowning you [with] kindness and mercies,

FBV He saves me from death; he honors[fn] me with trustworthy love and mercy.

103:4 Literally, “crowns.”

T4T he keeps me from dying [MTY],
⇔ and blesses me by faithfully loving me and acting mercifully to me.

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BBE He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.

Moff he saves your life from death,
⇔ he crowns you with his love and pity,

JPS Who redeemeth Thy life from the pit; who encompasseth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

ASV Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;
⇔ Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

DRA Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.

YLT Who is redeeming from destruction thy life, Who is crowning thee — kindness and mercies,

Drby Who redeemeth thy life from the pit, who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;

RV Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies:
(Who redeemeth thy/your life from destruction; who crowneth thee/you with loving-kindness and tender mercies: )

SLT Redeeming thy life from corruption, crowning thee with mercy and compassions.

Wbstr Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;

KJB-1769 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
(Who redeemeth thy/your life from destruction; who crowneth thee/you with loving-kindness and tender mercies; )

KJB-1611 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with louing kindnesse and tender mercies.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

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Gnva Which redeemeth thy life from the graue, and crowneth thee with mercy and compassions.
(Which redeemeth thy/your life from the grave, and crowneth thee/you with mercy and compassions. )

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ClVg qui facis angelos tuos spiritus, et ministros tuos ignem urentem.[fn]
(who you_do messenger/angels yours spirit, and ministros yours fire urentem. )

103.4 Ignem urentem. CASS. Id est seraphim, qui sunt superior ordo, facis ministros tuos, unde in Isaia: Volavit ad me unus de seraphim qui sunt superior ordo.

103.4 Ignem urentem. CASS. That it_is seraphim, who are superior ordo, you_do ministros yours, whence in/into/on Isaiah: Volavit to me one from/about seraphim who are superior ordo.

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UTN uW Translation Notes:

your & you

(Some words not found in UHB: the,redeems from,pit life_of,your the,crowns_of,you steadfast_love and,compassion )

David is speaking to himself, so he uses the words “your” and “you” to refer to himself. Many translations express this with “my” and “me” as the UST does.

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

He redeems your life from destruction

(Some words not found in UHB: the,redeems from,pit life_of,your the,crowns_of,you steadfast_love and,compassion )

This means that Yahweh keeps him alive. Alternate translation: “He saves me from dying”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

he crowns you with covenant faithfulness and acts of tender mercy

(Some words not found in UHB: the,redeems from,pit life_of,your the,crowns_of,you steadfast_love and,compassion )

Here blessing someone and treating them with great honor is described as if it were placing a crown on that person’s head. The abstract nouns “faithfulness” and “mercy” can be translated with adverbs. Alternate translation: “he blesses you by acting faithfully and mercifully towards you” (See also: figs-abstractnouns)

Parallel PSA 103:4