PSA 106:39 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Their actions made them unacceptable to worship God,
⇔ having prostituted themselves to other Gods.

106:39 OSHB note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.

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 Καὶ ὠλιγώθησαν καὶ ἐκακώθησαν ἀπὸ θλίψεως κακῶν καὶ ὀδύνης.
(Kai ōligōthaʸsan kai ekakōthaʸsan apo thlipseōs kakōn kai odunaʸs. )

BrTr Again they become few, and are brought low, by the pressure of evils and pain.

ULT They were defiled by their deeds;
⇔ in their actions they were like prostitutes.

UST So by their deeds they made it impossible for God to accept them;
⇔ because they did not faithfully worship only God,
⇔ they became like women who sleep with other men instead of sleeping only with their husbands.

BSB They defiled themselves by their actions
⇔ and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

OEB They became unclean by their works,
⇔ and adulterous in their deeds.

WEBBE Thus they were defiled with their works,
⇔ and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET They were defiled by their deeds,
⇔ and unfaithful in their actions.

LSV And they are defiled with their works,
And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

FBV The also defiled themselves by what they did: their actions were spiritual adultery.

T4T So by their deeds they caused themselves to become unacceptable to God;
⇔ because they did not faithfully worship only God,
⇔ they became like women who sleep with other men instead of sleeping only with their husbands [MET].

LEB • And they became unclean by their works, and were unfaithful in their deeds.

BBE So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.

Moff They were befouled by what they did,
⇔ and broke faith by their practices.

JPS Thus were they defiled with their works, and went astray in their doings.

ASV Thus were they defiled with their works,
⇔ And played the harlot in their doings.

DRA Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.

YLT And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

Drby And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

RV Thus were they defiled with their works, and went a whoring in their doings.

Wbstr Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went astray with their own inventions.

KJB-1769 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

KJB-1611 Thus were they defiled with their owne works: and went a whoring with their owne inuentions.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Thus were they stayned with their owne workes: and went a whoryng with their owne inuentions.
(Thus were they stayned with their own works: and went a whoring with their own inventions.)

Gnva Thus were they steined with their owne woorkes, and went a whoring with their owne inuentions.
(Thus were they steined with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. )

Cvdl Thus were they stayned wt their owne workes, and wente a whoringe with their owne invencions.
(Thus were they stayned with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.)

Wycl And thei weren maad fewe; and thei weren trauelid of tribulacioun of yuelis and of sorewis.
(And they were made fewe; and they were travelled of tribulation of evils and of sorrows.)

Luth und verunreinigten sich mit ihren Werken und hureten mit ihrem Tun.
(and veruncleanedn itself/yourself/themselves with your works and hureten with their Tun.)

ClVg Et pauci facti sunt et vexati sunt, a tribulatione malorum et dolore.[fn]
(And pauci facti are and vexati are, from tribulatione malorum and dolore. )

106.39 Et pauci. AUG. Septima pars, ubi dicitur etiam aliquid de hæreticis, etc., usque ad sed non erant de paucitate electorum. Vexati. CASS. Vel, persistentes per hæreticos, vel hæretici insidiis diaboli. Dolor et tribulatio his qui auctorem salutis relinquunt.

106.39 And pauci. AUG. Septima pars, where it_is_said also aliquid about hæreticis, etc., until to but not/no they_were about paucitate electorum. Vexati. CASS. Vel, persistentes through hæreticos, or hæretici insidiis diaboli. Dolor and tribulatio his who auctorem salutis relinquunt.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

They were defiled by their deeds

(Some words not found in UHB: and,became_unclean in/on/at/with,acts_of,their and,prostituted in/on/at/with,deeds_of,their )

If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you can state this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “Their deeds defiled them”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

in their actions they were like prostitutes

(Some words not found in UHB: and,became_unclean in/on/at/with,acts_of,their and,prostituted in/on/at/with,deeds_of,their )

Here David compares their unfaithfulness to Yahweh to the unfaithfulness of a prostitute. Alternate translation: “they were as unfaithful to Yahweh as prostitutes”

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