PSA 104:4 Parallel Verse View

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Key: khaki:verbs.
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BrLXX Ζητήσατε τὸν Κύριον καὶ κραταιώθητε· ζητήσατε τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ διαπαντός.
(Zaʸtaʸsate ton Kurion kai krataiōthaʸte; zaʸtaʸsate to prosōpon autou diapantos. )

UST You caused the winds to be like your messengers,
⇔ and flames of fire to be like your servants.

104:4 LXX He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire. Cited in Hebrews 1:7

OEB He takes the winds for his messengers,
⇔ the fire and the flame for his servants.

WEBBE He makes his messengers[fn] winds,
⇔ and his servants flames of fire.

104:4 or, angels

WMBB (Same as above including footnotes)

NET He makes the winds his messengers,
⇔ and the flaming fire his attendant.

LSV Making His messengers—the winds,
His ministers—the flaming fire.

FBV You make your angels winds, and your servants flames of fire.[fn]

104:4 Septuagint reading; also quoted in Hebrews 1:7.

T4T You caused the winds to be like your messengers [MET],
⇔ and flames of fire to be like your servants.

LEB • the winds, his attendants a flame of fire.

BBE He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.

Moff thou makest winds thy messengers,
⇔ fire and flame thy servants.

JPS Who makest winds Thy messengers, the flaming fire Thy ministers.

ASV Who maketh winds his messengers;
⇔ Flames of fire his ministers;

DRA Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.

YLT Making His messengers — the winds, His ministers — the flaming fire.

Drby Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flame of fire.

RV Who maketh winds his messengers; his ministers a flaming fire:

Wbstr Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

KJB-1769 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

KJB-1611 [fn]Who maketh his Angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire.

104:4 Heb. 1.7.

Bshps He maketh his angels spirites: and his ministers a flaming fire.
(He maketh his angels spirits: and his ministers a flaming fire.)

Gnva Which maketh his spirits his messengers, and a flaming fire his ministers.

Cvdl Thou makest thine angels spretes, and thy ministers flammes of fyre.
(Thou makest thine/your angels spirits, and thy/your ministers flammes of fyre.)

Wyc seke ye the Lord, and be ye confermed; seke ye euere his face.
(seke ye/you_all the Lord, and be ye/you_all confermed; seek ye/you_all euere his face.)

Luth der du machest deine Engel zu Winden und deine Diener zu Feuerflammen;
(der you machest your angel to Winden and your Diener to fireflammen;)

ClVg Quærite Dominum, et confirmamini; quærite faciem ejus semper.[fn]
(Quærite Dominum, and confirmamini; quærite face his semper. )

104.4 Faciem, etc. ID. Id est præsentiam, etc., usque ad malus timere potest præsentiam, quam bonus amat. HIER. A martyre Hyppolito, etc., usque ad ibi ex gentibus sumpturus Ecclesiam.

104.4 Faciem, etc. ID. That it_is præsentiam, etc., until to malus timere potest præsentiam, how bonus amat. HIER. A martyre Hyppolito, etc., until to there from nations sumpturus Ecclesiam.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

He makes the winds his messengers

(Some words not found in UHB: producing messengers,his winds ministers,his fire flame )

This could mean: (1) he causes the wind to be able to carry a message like a messenger, “He makes the winds to be like his messengers” or (2) “He makes his messengers swift like the wind” (See also: figs-metaphor)

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

flames of fire his servants

(Some words not found in UHB: producing messengers,his winds ministers,his fire flame )

This could mean: (1) “he causes flames of fire to be like his servants.” He causes fire to serve him like a servant would or (2) “he makes his servants to be like flames of fire”and (See also: figs-metaphor)

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

flames of fire his servants

(Some words not found in UHB: producing messengers,his winds ministers,his fire flame )

This can be stated with the implied information from the previous line. Alternate translation: “He makes the flames of fire his servants”

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