PSA 124:3 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) they would have swallowed us up alive
⇔ when their anger raged against us.

124:4 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as 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 Ὅτι οὐκ ἀφήσει Κύριος τὴν ῥάβδον τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν ἐπὶ τὸν κλῆρον τῶν δικαίων, ὅπως ἂν μὴ ἐκτείνωσιν οἱ δίκαιοι ἐν ἀνομίαις χεῖρας αὐτῶν.
(Hoti ouk afaʸsei Kurios taʸn ɽabdon tōn hamartōlōn epi ton klaʸron tōn dikaiōn, hopōs an maʸ ekteinōsin hoi dikaioi en anomiais ⱪeiras autōn.)

BrTr For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

ULT then they would have swallowed us up alive
⇔ when their anger raged against us.

UST then they would have destroyed us completely,
⇔ because they were so angry with us.

BSB when their anger flared against us,
⇔ then they would have swallowed us alive,

MSB (Same as BSB above)

OEB then alive they’d have swallowed us up,
⇔ when their anger was kindled against us.

WEBBE then they would have swallowed us up alive,
⇔ when their wrath was kindled against us,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET they would have swallowed us alive,
⇔ when their anger raged against us.

LSV Then they had swallowed us alive,
In the burning of their anger against us,

FBV They would have swallowed us alive when their anger raged against us.

T4T we would have all been killed [IDM]
⇔ because they were very angry with us!

LEB • then they would have swallowed us alive,
• when their anger was kindled against us.

BBE They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:

Moff they would have swallowed us alive,
⇔ so fierce their anger flamed;

JPS Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

ASV Then they had swallowed us up alive,
⇔ When their wrath was kindled against us:

DRA For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

YLT Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,

Drby Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

RV Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

SLT Then they swallowed us down living, in the kindling of their anger against us:

Wbstr Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

KJB-1769 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

KJB-1611 Then they had swallowed vs vp quicke: when their wrath was kindled against vs.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Then they had swalowed vs vp quicke: when their wrath was so inflamed against vs.
(Then they had swallowed us up quick: when their wrath was so inflamed against us.)

Gnva They had then swallowed vs vp quicke, when their wrath was kindled against vs.
(They had then swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us.)

Cvdl Yee the waters had drowned vs, the streame had gone ouer oure soule.
(Ye/You_all the waters had drowned us, the stream had gone over our soul.)

Wycl For the Lord schal not leeue the yerde of synneris on the part of iust men; that iust men holde not forth her hondis to wickidnesse.
(For the Lord shall not leave the rod/stick of sinners on the part of just men; that just men hold not forth her hands to wickedness.)

Luth so verschlängen sie uns lebendig, wenn ihr Zorn über uns ergrimmete,
(so devour they/she/them us/to_us/ourselves lively/alive, when you(pl)/their/her anger above us/to_us/ourselves enraged,)

ClVg Quia non relinquet Dominus virgam peccatorum super sortem justorum: ut non extendant justi ad iniquitatem manus suas,
(Because not/no will_leave Master rod/staff of_sins/sinners over lot of_the_righteous: as not/no extend just to iniquity hands their_own,)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-condition-hypothetical

אֲ֭זַי

then

Here and through verse 5, the word then introduces what the consequences could have been if the condition proposed in the previous verse (if Yahweh had not been with them when their enemies attacked) had actually happened. Use a natural form in your language for introducing the consequence of this possible condition. Alternate translation: [in that case,]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

חַיִּ֣ים בְּלָע֑וּ⁠נוּ

(Some words not found in UHB: then life(pl) they,had_swallowed_us_up when,burned anger_of,their on,us )

Here David is speaking as if the enemies who could have killed all the Israelites were wild animals that could have swallowed Israel alive. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [then they would have killed us all]

Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns

בְּלָע֑וּ⁠נוּ

(Some words not found in UHB: then life(pl) they,had_swallowed_us_up when,burned anger_of,their on,us )

The pronoun they refers to the enemies described as “man” in verse 2. The singular “man” has shifted to a plural pronoun here and following. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: [then those enemies]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

בַּ⁠חֲר֖וֹת אַפָּ֣⁠ם בָּֽ⁠נוּ

(Some words not found in UHB: then life(pl) they,had_swallowed_us_up when,burned anger_of,their on,us )

David is using nose burned as a common expression of his culture to mean “to be very angry.” If this phrase does not have that meaning for your readers, you could use a comparable expression from your language that does have that meaning, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [they were fiercely angry with us]

Parallel PSA 124:3