PSA 108:4 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀγαπᾷν με, ἐνδιέβαλλόν με, ἐγὼ δὲ προσηυχόμην.
(Anti tou agapan me, endieballon me, egō de prosaʸuⱪomaʸn. )

BrTr [fn]Instead of loving me, they falsely accused me: but I continued to pray.

ULT For your covenant faithfulness is great above the heavens;
⇔ and your trustworthiness reaches to the skies.

UST because your faithful love for us reaches up to the heavens,
⇔ and you are as faithful in keeping your promises as the clouds are high above the earth.

BSB For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens,
⇔ and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

OEB For great to heaven is your love,
⇔ and your faithfulness to the clouds.

WEBBE For your loving kindness is great above the heavens.
⇔ Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET For your loyal love extends beyond the sky,
⇔ and your faithfulness reaches the clouds.

LSV For Your kindness [is] great above the heavens,
And Your truth to the clouds.

FBV For your trustworthy love reaches higher than the heavens, your faithfulness is higher than the clouds.

T4T because your faithful love for us reaches up to the heavens,
⇔ and your faithfully doing what you promise is as great as the distance up to the clouds.

LEB • because your loyal love is great above the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

BBE For your mercy is higher than the heavens: and your unchanging faith than the clouds.

Moff for thy love is high over heaven,
⇔ thy loyalty soars to the skies.

JPS (108-5) For Thy mercy is great above the heavens, and Thy truth reacheth unto the skies.

ASV For thy lovingkindness is great above the heavens;
⇔ And thy truth reacheth unto the skies.

DRA Instead of making me a return of love, they detracted me: but I gave myself to prayer.

YLT For great above the heavens [is] Thy kindness, And unto the clouds Thy truth.

Drby For thy loving-kindness is great above the heavens, and thy truth is unto the clouds.

RV For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reacheth unto the skies.

Wbstr For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth to the clouds.

KJB-1769 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.[fn]
(For thy/your mercy is great above the heavens: and thy/your truth reacheth unto the clouds. )

108.4 clouds: or, skies

KJB-1611 [fn]For thy mercy is great aboue the heauens: and thy trueth reacheth vnto the clouds.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

108:4 Or, skies.

Bshps For the greatnes of thy mercy reacheth vnto the heauens: and thy trueth vnto the cloudes.
(For the greatnes of thy/your mercy reacheth unto the heavens: and thy/your truth unto the clouds.)

Gnva For thy mercy is great aboue the heauens, and thy trueth vnto the clouds.
(For thy/your mercy is great above the heavens, and thy/your truth unto the clouds. )

Cvdl For the greatnesse of thy mercy is higher then the heauens, and thy faithfulnesse reacheth vnto the cloudes.
(For the greatness of thy/your mercy is higher then the heavens, and thy/your faithfulnesse reacheth unto the clouds.)

Wycl For that thing that thei schulden loue me, thei bacbitiden me; but Y preiede.
(For that thing that they should love me, they bacbitiden me; but I prayed.)

Luth Ich will dir danken, HErr, unter den Völkern, ich will dir lobsingen unter den Leuten.
(I will you/to_you danken, LORD, under the peoplesn, I will you/to_you lobsingen under the Leuten.)

ClVg Pro eo ut me diligerent, detrahebant mihi; ego autem orabam.[fn]
(Pro eo as me diligerent, detrahebant mihi; I however orabam. )

108.4 Pro eo ut me. ID. Plus nocent, in membris detrahentes Christo, quia animas crediturorum interficiunt, quam qui carnem ejus mox resurrecturam peremerunt.

108.4 Pro eo as me. ID. Plus nocent, in membris detrahentes Christo, because animas he_believesurorum interficiunt, how who carnem his mox resurrecturam peremerunt.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

your covenant faithfulness is great above the heavens; and your trustworthiness reaches to the skies

(Some words not found in UHB: give_thanks,you in/on/at/with,peoples YHWH and,sing_praises,you among nations )

These two phrases have similar meanings. They speak of the greatness of Yahweh’s covenant faithfulness and trustworthiness as if they were objects that were tall enough to reach up to the sky. The abstract nouns “faithfulness” and “trustworthiness” can be translated as adjectives. Alternate translation: “For your covenant faithfulness and trustworthiness are greater than the distance between heaven and earth” or “For you are more faithful to your covenant and more worthy of people trusting you than the sky is higher than the earth” (See also: figs-metaphor and figs-abstractnouns)

Parallel PSA 108:4