PSA 138:8 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Yahweh will avenge them for me.
⇔ Your loyal affection continues forever.
⇔ You don’t abandon the work that you started.

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).

BrLXX Ἐὰν ἀναβῶ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν, σὺ ἐκεῖ εἶ· ἐὰν καταβῶ εἰς τὸν ᾅδην, πάρει.
(Ean anabō eis ton ouranon, su ekei ei; ean katabō eis ton hadaʸn, parei. )

BrTr If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to hell, thou art present.

ULT Yahweh is with me to the end;
⇔ your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, endures forever.
⇔ Do not forsake the ones whom your hands have made.

UST Yahweh, you will do for me everything that you promised;
⇔ you faithfully love us forever.
⇔ Finish what you started to do for us, your Israelite people!

BSB The LORD will fulfill [His purpose] for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.

OEB The Lord will accomplish all that which concerns me.
⇔ Your kindness, O Lord, endures forever.
⇔ O do not abandon the work of your hands.

WEBBE The LORD will fulfil that which concerns me.
⇔ Your loving kindness, LORD, endures forever.
⇔ Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET The Lord avenges me.
⇔ O Lord, your loyal love endures.
⇔ Do not abandon those whom you have made!

LSV YHWH perfects for me,
O YHWH, Your kindness [is] for all time,
Do not let the works of Your hands fall!

FBV The Lord vindicates me! Lord, your trustworthy love lasts forever! Don't give up on what you have made![fn]

138:8 This probably refers to the psalmist, but it could also mean the people of Israel, or God's creation generally.

T4T Yahweh, you will do for me everything that you promised;
⇔ you faithfully love us forever.
⇔ Finish what you started to do for us, your Israeli people.

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BBE The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.

Moff The Eternal intervenes on my behalf:
⇔ Eternal One, thy kindness never fails,
⇔ thou wilt not drop the work thou hast begun.

JPS The LORD will accomplish that which concerneth me; Thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever; forsake not the work of Thine own hands.

ASV Jehovah will perfect that which concerneth me:
⇔ Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, endureth for ever;
⇔ Forsake not the works of thine own hands.

DRA If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.

YLT Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness [is] to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!

Drby Jehovah will perfect what concerneth me: thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, [endureth] for ever; forsake not the works of thine own hands.

RV The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever; forsake not the works of thine own hands.
(The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy/your mercy, Oh LORD, endureth forever; forsake not the works of thine/your own hands. )

SLT Jehovah will complete for me: O Jehovah, thy mercy is forever: thou wilt not let go the works of thy hands.

Wbstr The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works thy own hands.

KJB-1769 The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
(The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy/your mercy, Oh LORD, endureth forever: forsake not the works of thine/your own hands. )

KJB-1611 The LORD wil perfit that which concerneth me: thy mercie, O LORD, endureth for euer: forsake not the works of thine owne hands.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

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Gnva The Lord will performe his worke toward me: O Lord, thy mercie endureth for euer: forsake not the workes of thine handes.
(The Lord will perform his work toward me: Oh Lord, thy/your mercy endureth forever: forsake not the works of thine/your hands. )

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ClVg Si ascendero in cælum, tu illic es; si descendero in infernum, ades.[fn]
(When/But_if I_will_go_up in/into/on the_sky, you(sg) there you_are; when/but_if descendero in/into/on hell, ades. )

138.8 Si ascendero in cœlum, tu illic es, etc. AUG. Si me extulero, invenio repressorem; si de justitia mea superbiero, Tu ibi es, cujus vere est justitia. Si descendero, peccando venero, Ad infernum, vel in profundum, et nolens confiteri: dicam, quis me videt? Ades, ut vindices. Invenit consilium, sed sic potero fugere iratum.

138.8 When/But_if I_will_go_up in/into/on cœlum, you(sg) there you_are, etc. AUG. When/But_if me extulero, I_foundo repressorem; when/but_if from/about justice my superbiero, You(sg) there you_are, whose vere it_is justice. When/But_if descendero, peccando venero, To hell, or in/into/on profundum, and nolens confiteri: I_will_say, who/any me he_sees? Ades, as vindices. Invenit advice, but so potero fugere iratum.

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UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, endures forever

(Some words not found in UHB: YHWH fulfill for,me YHWH love_of,your to,forever works_of hands_of,your not abandon )

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea behind the word faithfulness, you could express the same idea with an adjective. Alternate translation: “you, Yahweh, remain faithful to your covenant forever”

the ones whom your hands have made

(Some words not found in UHB: YHWH fulfill for,me YHWH love_of,your to,forever works_of hands_of,your not abandon )

This expression probably refers to the nation of Israel.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

your hands have made

(Some words not found in UHB: YHWH fulfill for,me YHWH love_of,your to,forever works_of hands_of,your not abandon )

God is spoken of as if he had physically used hands to create. Alternate translation: “you have created”

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