PSA 130:3 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Yahweh, if you kept a record of our disobedience,
⇔ master, who could stand before you?

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 Ἐλπισάτω Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν καὶ ἕως τοῦ αἰῶνος.
(Elpisatō Israaʸl epi ton Kurion apo tou nun kai heōs tou aiōnos.)

ULT If you, Yahweh, would mark iniquities,
⇔ Lord, who could stand?

UST Yahweh, if you kept a record of the sins that we have committed,
⇔ Lord, you would have to condemn and punish every one of us!

BSB If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities,
⇔ [then] who, O Lord, could stand?

MSB (Same as BSB above)

OEB ⇔ If you should mark sin, Lord,
⇔ O Lord, who could stand?

WEBBE If you, LORD,[fn] kept a record of sins,
⇔ Lord, who could stand?

130:3 Hebrew: יה Yah

WMBB If you, LORD, kept a record of sins,
⇔ Lord, who could stand?

NET If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins,
⇔ O Lord, who could stand before you?

LSV If You observe iniquities, Lord YAH, who stands?

FBV Lord, if you kept a list of sins, who could escape being condemned?

T4T ⇔ Yahweh, if you kept a record of the sins that we have committed,
⇔ not one of us [RHQ] would escape from being condemned and punished

LEB • If you, O Yah,[fn] should keep track of[fn] iniquities,
• O Lord, who could stand?

130:? A shortened form of “Yahweh”

130:? Literally “keep”

BBE O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

Moff If thou didst keep strict tally of sins,
⇔ O Lord, who could live on?

JPS If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

ASV If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities,
⇔ O Lord, who could stand?

DRA Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.

YLT If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

Drby If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?

RV If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
(If thou/you, LORD, shouldest/should mark iniquities, Oh Lord, who shall stand?)

SLT If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand?

Wbstr If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O LORD, who shall stand?

KJB-1769 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
(If thou/you, LORD, shouldest/should mark iniquities, Oh Lord, who shall stand?)

KJB-1611 If thou, LORD, shouldest marke iniquities: O LORD, who shal stand?
(If thou/you, LORD, shouldest/should mark iniquities: Oh LORD, who shall stand?)

Bshps If thou O God wylt marke what is done amisse: O Lorde who can abide it?
(If thou/you Oh God wilt/will mark what is done amiss: Oh Lord who can abide it?)

Gnva If thou, O Lord, straightly markest iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
(If thou/you, Oh Lord, straightly markest iniquities, Oh Lord, who shall stand?)

Cvdl Yf thou (LORDE) wilt be extreme to marcke what is done amysse, Oh LORDE, who maye abyde it?
(If thou/you (LORD) wilt/will be extreme to mark what is done amiss, Oh LORD, who may abide it?)

Wycl Israel hope in the Lord; fro this tyme now and in to the world.
(Israel hope in the Lord; from this time now and in to the world.)

Luth So du willst, HErr, Sünde zurechnen, HErr, wer wird bestehen?
(So you(sg) want, LORD, sin(n) attributable, LORD, who becomes consist?)

ClVg Speret Israël in Domino, ex hoc nunc et usque in sæculum.][fn]
(Hope Israel in/into/on Master, from this now and until in/into/on forever.])

130.3 Speret Isræl. CASS. Secunda pars, ubi concludit suo exemplo cæteros monens.

130.3 Hope Israel. CASS. Second part, where concludes his_own example the_rest warning.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-condition-hypothetical

אִם־עֲוֺנ֥וֹת תִּשְׁמָר־יָ֑הּ

if iniquities (Some words not found in UHB: if iniquities mark Yah my=master who? stand )

Here, If introduces a hypothetical condition. The psalmist is saying that this is something that could happen. He is implying that no one could endure God’s judgment if he kept a record of sins. Use a natural form in your language for introducing a condition that could happen. Alternate translation: [Yah, suppose you would mark sins]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

עֲוֺנ֥וֹת תִּשְׁמָר־יָ֑הּ

iniquities (Some words not found in UHB: if iniquities mark Yah my=master who? stand )

The psalmist is using mark sins as a common expression of the culture to mean “keep a strict tally of sins.” 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: [you, Yah, would keep a count of our sins]

יָ֑הּ

Yah

Yah is a shortened form of the name “Yahweh,” the God of Israel. You could use the full name if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [Yahweh]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

מִ֣י יַעֲמֹֽד

who? stand

The psalmist is using the question form to emphasize that no one would be able to endure God’s judgment. If a speaker of your language would not use the question form for that purpose, you could translate this as a statement or as an exclamation. Alternate translation: [no one could stand!]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

יַעֲמֹֽד

stand

The psalmist is speaking about staying alive or surviving attack or punishment as if it were being able to physically stand. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [could survive] or [could withstand the punishment]

Parallel PSA 130:3