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

OET (OET-RV) Yes, Yahweh has chosen Tsiyyon (Zion)—
⇔ that’s where he wants to reside.

Key: khaki:verbs, green:YHWH.
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).

OEB For the choice of the Lord is Zion;
⇔ she is the home of his heart.

WEBBE For the LORD has chosen Zion.
⇔ He has desired it for his habitation.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Certainly the Lord has chosen Zion;
⇔ he decided to make it his home.

LSV For YHWH has fixed on Zion,
He has desired [it] for a seat to Himself,

FBV For the Lord has chosen Zion, wanting to make his home there, saying:

T4T ⇔ Yahweh has chosen Jerusalem;
⇔ he has wanted to make that city his home;

LEB No LEB PSA book available

BBE For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place.

Moff ⇔ For the Eternal has chosen Sion as the seat that he desires;

JPS For the LORD hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for His habitation:

ASV For Jehovah hath chosen Zion;
⇔ He hath desired it for his habitation.

DRA No DRA PSA 132:13 verse available

YLT For Jehovah hath fixed on Zion, He hath desired [it] for a seat to Himself,

Drby For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his dwelling:

RV For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
(For the LORD hath/has chosen Zion; he hath/has desired it for his habitation. )

SLT For Jehovah chose in Zion; for he desired it for a dwelling to himself.

Wbstr For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.

KJB-1769 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
(For the LORD hath/has chosen Zion; he hath/has desired it for his habitation. )

KJB-1611 For the LORD hath chosen Zion: he hath desired it for his habitation.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps No Bshps PSA book available

Gnva For the Lord hath chosen Zion, and loued to dwell in it, saying,
(For the Lord hath/has chosen Zion, and loved to dwell in it, saying, )

Cvdl No Cvdl PSA book available

Wycl No Wycl PSA book available

Luth No Luth PSA book available

ClVg No ClVg PSA 132:13 verse available

RP-GNT No RP-GNT PSA book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / pronouns

General Information:

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when chosen YHWH in/on/at/with,Zion desired,it for,habitation to=him/it )

General Information:

“He”, “my” and “I” refer to Yahweh and “her” refers to Zion.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

Zion & her

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when chosen YHWH in/on/at/with,Zion desired,it for,habitation to=him/it )

The author writes as though the city of Zion were a woman.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

he has desired her for his seat

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when chosen YHWH in/on/at/with,Zion desired,it for,habitation to=him/it )

“Yahweh has desired Zion for Yahweh’s seat.” Here, seat could mean: (1) his throne where he would rule, or (2) the place where he would stay.

Parallel PSA 132:13

General Information: