PSA 137:5 Parallel Verse View

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

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 Καὶ ᾀσάτωσαν ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς Κυρίου, ὅτι μεγάλη ἡ δόξα Κυρίου.
(Kai asatōsan en tais hodois Kuriou, hoti megalaʸ haʸ doxa Kuriou. )

BrTr And let them sing in the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord.

UST If I forget about Jerusalem, I hope that my right hand will wither
⇔ so that I will be unable to play my harp!

BSB If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
⇔ 
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OEB If I forget you, Jerusalem,
⇔ may my right hand wither.

WEBBE If I forget you, Jerusalem,
⇔ let my right hand forget its skill.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
⇔ may my right hand be crippled!

LSV If I forget you, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgets!

FBV If I forget Jerusalem, may my right hand forget how to play;[fn]

137:5 Play music.

T4T ⇔ If I forget about Jerusalem [APO], Iet my right hand wither
⇔ with the result that I will be unable to play my harp

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BBE If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

Moff Jerusalem, if ever I forget thee,
⇔ withered be this my hand!

JPS If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

ASV If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,
⇔ Let my right hand forget her skill.

DRA And let them sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.

YLT If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

Drby If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [its skill];

RV If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
(If I forget thee/you, Oh Yerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. )

SLT If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand shall be forgotten.

Wbstr If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her skill .

KJB-1769 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
(If I forget thee/you, Oh Yerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. )

KJB-1611 If I forget thee, O Ierusalem: let my right hand forget her cunning.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

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Gnva If I forget thee, O Ierusalem, let my right hand forget to play.
(If I forget thee/you, Oh Yerusalem, let my right hand forget to play. )

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ClVg Et cantent in viis Domini, quoniam magna est gloria Domini;[fn]
(And cantent in/into/on ways Master, since/because big it_is glory Master; )

137.5 Magna est gloria. ID. Si humiles sunt, hoc amant et cantant, nam si se extulerint, timeant quod sequitur. Quoniam excelsus Dominus. Humilia respicit. CASS. Non est hic humana conditio, ubi humilis despicitur, superbus respicitur; sed Dominus humiles respicit. Alta a longe cognoscit. AUG. Non hoc agit superbus, etc., usque ad lugentes hunc incolatum, unde subditur.

137.5 Magna it_is glory. ID. When/But_if humbles are, this amant and cantant, for/surely when/but_if himself extulerint, timeant that follows. Since excelsus Master. Humilia looks_back. CASS. Not/No it_is this/here humana conditio, where humble looks_downur, superbus looks_backur; but Master humbles looks_back. Alta from far_away cognoscit. AUG. Not/No this acts superbus, etc., until to they_mournes this_one incolatum, whence I_submitur.

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UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

If I ignore the memory of you, Jerusalem

(Some words not found in UHB: if forget,you Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem) forget right_hand_of,my )

The writer speaks as if Jerusalem is listening to him. Alternate translation: “If I act as if I did not remember you, Jerusalem” or “If I try to forget you, Jerusalem” (See also: figs-apostrophe)

right hand

(Some words not found in UHB: if forget,you Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem) forget right_hand_of,my )

the hand most people use most often

Parallel PSA 137:5