PSA 121:3 Parallel Verse View

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

OET (OET-RV) ⇔ May he not allow your feet to slip.
⇔ May your protector stay alert.

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 Ἱερουσαλὴμ οἰκοδομουμένη ὡς πόλις, ἧς ἡ μετοχὴ αὐτῆς ἐπιτοαυτό.
(Hierousalaʸm oikodomoumenaʸ hōs polis, haʸs haʸ metoⱪaʸ autaʸs epitoauto. )

ULT May he not appoint your foot for slipping.
⇔ May the one who protects you not slumber.

UST Then someone said to me, “God will keep your from being harmed,
⇔ he will always be ready to protect you.

BSB ⇔ He will not allow your foot to slip;
⇔ your Protector will not slumber.

OEB ⇔ Your foot he will not let stumble:
⇔ he who guards you will not sleep.

WEBBE ⇔ He will not allow your foot to be moved.
⇔ He who keeps you will not slumber.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET May he not allow your foot to slip!
⇔ May your protector not sleep!

LSV He does not permit your foot to be moved,
He who is preserving you does not slumber.

FBV He will not let you fall; he who watches over you won't fall asleep.

T4T ⇔ He will not allow us to fall/stumble;
⇔ God, who protects us, will not fall asleep.

LEB • He will not allow your foot to be moved; he who protects you will not slumber.

BBE May he not let your foot be moved: no need of sleep has he who keeps you.

Moff ⇔ Never will he let you slip; he who guards you never sleeps:

JPS He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber.

ASV ⇔ He will not suffer thy foot to be moved:
⇔ He that keepeth thee will not slumber.

DRA Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.

YLT He suffereth not thy foot to be moved, Thy preserver slumbereth not.

Drby He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

RV He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

Wbstr He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

KJB-1769 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
(He will not suffer thy/your foot to be moved: he that keepeth/keeps thee/you will not slumber. )

KJB-1611 He will not suffer thy foote to bee moued: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps He wyll not suffer thy foote to moue: he wyll not sleepe that kepeth thee.
(He will not suffer thy/your foot to moue: he will not sleep that keepeth/keeps thee/you.)

Gnva He wil not suffer thy foote to slippe: for he that keepeth thee, will not slumber.
(He will not suffer thy/your foot to slippe: for he that keepeth/keeps thee/you, will not slumber. )

Cvdl He will not suffre thy fote to be moued, and he yt kepeth the, slepeth not.
(He will not suffer thy/your foot to be moved, and he it keepeth/keeps them, sleepeth/sleeps not.)

Wycl Jerusalem, which is bildid as a citee; whos part taking therof is in to the same thing.
(Yerusalem, which is built as a city; whos part taking thereof is in to the same thing.)

Luth Er wird deinen Fuß nicht gleiten lassen; und der dich behütet, schläft nicht.
(He becomes yours foot not gleiten let; and the/of_the you/yourself protected, schläft not.)

ClVg Jerusalem, quæ ædificatur ut civitas, cujus participatio ejus in idipsum.
(Yerusalem, which ædificatur as civitas, cuyus participatio his in idipsum. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person

אַל־יִתֵּ֣ן לַ⁠מּ֣וֹט רַגְלֶ֑⁠ךָ

not he/it_gave to_the, ,your

Here, the author switches from first person to second person. Many experts suggest that there is a different person that begins speaking from here to the end of the verse, and that he is speaking to the author. This will be indicated by calling him the “second speaker”. If it would be helpful to your readers, you can indicate this explicitly. Alternate translation: “Another person said to me, “May he not appoint your foot for slipping”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / litotes

אַל־יִתֵּ֣ן לַ⁠מּ֣וֹט רַגְלֶ֑⁠ךָ אַל־יָ֝נ֗וּם שֹֽׁמְרֶֽ⁠ךָ

not he/it_gave to_the, ,your not יָנוּם שֹׁמְרֶֽ,ךָ

The second speaker is using a figure of speech here that expresses a strongly positive meaning by using a negative word, not, together with an expression that is the opposite of the intended meaning. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the positive meaning. Alternate translation: “May he surely make your feet sturdy. May the one who protects you stay awake to guard you”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

אַל־יִתֵּ֣ן לַ⁠מּ֣וֹט רַגְלֶ֑⁠ךָ

not he/it_gave to_the, ,your

The second speaker is using the phrase appoint your foot for slipping to mean to make someone vulnerable of to a bad thing happening to them. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “May he not make you vulnerable to harm”

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