PSA 124:3 Parallel Verse View

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

124:4 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.

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

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:

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.
(Then they had swallowed us up quicke: when their wrath was kindled against us.)

Bshps Then they had swalowed vs vp quicke: when their wrath was so inflamed against vs.
(Then they had swalowed us up quicke: 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 quicke, 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 yerde 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 verschlängen they/she/them us/to_us/ourselves lifedig, when you/their/her anger above us/to_us/ourselves ergrimmete,)

ClVg Quia non relinquet Dominus virgam peccatorum super sortem justorum: ut non extendant justi ad iniquitatem manus suas,
(Because not/no relinquet Master rod/staffm sinners over lot justorum: as not/no extendant justi to iniquitatem hands suas, )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hypo

then they would have swallowed us up alive

(Some words not found in UHB: then life(pl) swallowed,us in/on/at/with,kindled anger_of,their in/on/at/with,us )

This is the end of a hypothetical statement that begins with the words “If Yahweh had not been on our side” in Psalms 124:1 and continues with the words “if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side when men rose up against us” in Psalms 124:2. It describes a result that did not happen because Yahweh was actually on their side. “They were not able to swallow us up alive because Yahweh was on our side.”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

swallowed us up alive

(Some words not found in UHB: then life(pl) swallowed,us in/on/at/with,kindled anger_of,their in/on/at/with,us )

This metaphor describes how the Israelites could have died to how a fierce animal would attack a smaller animal to eat. Alternate translation: “killed us”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

their anger raged against us

(Some words not found in UHB: then life(pl) swallowed,us in/on/at/with,kindled anger_of,their in/on/at/with,us )

Here “their anger” refers to the enemies who were angry. Alternate translation: “they were very angry with us”

Parallel PSA 124:3