PSA 119:38 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
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UST Because I am one who serves you, do what you promised to do for me,
⇔ which is what you also promise to do for all those who honor you.

OEB Confirm to your servant the promise
⇔ which is given to those who fear you.

WEBBE Fulfil your promise to your servant,
⇔ that you may be feared.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Confirm to your servant your promise,
⇔ which you made to the one who honors you.

LSV Establish Your saying to Your servant,
That [is] concerning Your fear.

FBV Please keep your promise to me, your servant, that you made to those who worship you.

T4T Because I serve you, do what you promised to do for me,
⇔ which is what you also promise to do for all those who revere you.

LEB • Fulfill your word[fn] to your servant, which is to bring about a reverence for you.

119:? Or “your promise”

BBE Give effect to your word to your servant, in whose heart is the fear of you.

Moff Fulfil thy promise to thy servant, to advance thy faith;

JPS Confirm Thy word unto Thy servant, which pertaineth unto the fear of Thee.

ASV Confirm unto thy servant thy word,
⇔ Which is in order unto the fear of thee.

DRA No DRA PSA 119:38 verse available

YLT Establish to Thy servant Thy saying, That [is] concerning Thy fear.

Drby Establish thy *word unto thy servant, who is [devoted] to thy fear.

RV Confirm thy word unto thy servant, which belongeth unto the fear of thee.

Wbstr Establish thy word to thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.

KJB-1769 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.
(Stablish thy/your word unto thy/your servant, who is devoted to thy/your fear. )

KJB-1611 Stablish thy word vnto thy seruant: who is deuoted to thy feare.
(Stablish thy/your word unto thy/your servant: who is deuoted to thy/your fear.)

Bshps Make thy worde more euident vnto thy seruaunt: who is geuen to thy feare.
(Make thy/your word more euident unto thy/your servant: who is given to thy/your fear.)

Gnva Stablish thy promise to thy seruaunt, because he feareth thee.
(Stablish thy/your promise to thy/your servant, because he feareth thee/you. )

Cvdl O stablish thy worde in thy seruaunt, yt I maye feare the.
(O stablish thy/your word in thy/your servant, it I may fear them.)

Wycl No Wycl PSA 119:38 verse available

Luth Laß deinen Knecht dein Gebot festiglich für dein Wort halten, daß ich dich fürchte!
(Let deinen Knecht your Gebot festiglich for your word halten, that I you/yourself fürchte!)

ClVg No ClVg PSA 119:38 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Carry out for your servant your promise that you made to those who honor you

(Some words not found in UHB: confirm to,servant_of,your promise_of,your which/who to,reverence_of,you )

Alternate translation: “Do for your servant what you promised to do for those who honor you”

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

your servant

(Some words not found in UHB: confirm to,servant_of,your promise_of,your which/who to,reverence_of,you )

The writer referred to himself as God’s servant to show his humility. Alternate translation: “me, your servant”

Parallel PSA 119:38