PSA 140:7 Parallel Verse View

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

Key: khaki:verbs.
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BrLXX Ὡσεὶ πάχος γῆς διεῤῥάγη ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, διεσκορπίσθη τὰ ὀστᾶ ἡμῶν παρὰ τὸν ᾅδην.
(Hōsei paⱪos gaʸs dieɽɽagaʸ epi taʸs gaʸs, dieskorpisthaʸ ta osta haʸmōn para ton hadaʸn. )

BrTr As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave.

ULT Yahweh, my Lord, you are the strength of my salvation;
⇔ you shield my head in the day of battle.

UST Yahweh, my Lord, you are the one who strongly defends me;
⇔ you have protected me during battles as though you had put a helmet on my head.

BSB O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
⇔ You shield my head in the day of battle.

OEB O Lord my Lord, my saviour mighty,
⇔ you did cover my head in the day of battle.

WEBBE LORD, the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
⇔ you have covered my head in the day of battle.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET O sovereign Lord, my strong deliverer,
⇔ you shield my head in the day of battle.

LSV O YHWH, my Lord, strength of my salvation,
You have covered my head in the day of armor.

FBV Lord God, my powerful Savior, you covered my head like a helmet[fn] on the day of battle.

140:7 “Like a helmet”: implied.

T4T Yahweh, my Lord, you are the one who defends me strongly;
⇔ you have protected me during battles [MET] as though you had put a helmet on my head.

LEB • you have covered my head in the day of battle.

BBE O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight.

Moff Eternal One, my Lord, my saving strength,
⇔ who screenest me against attack,

JPS (140-8) O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, who hast screened my head in the day of battle,

ASV O Jehovah the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
⇔ Thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

DRA As when the thickness of the earth is broken up upon the ground: Our bones are scattered by the side of hell.

YLT O Jehovah, my Lord, strength of my salvation, Thou hast covered my head in the day of armour.

Drby Jehovah, the Lord, is the strength of my salvation: thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

RV O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Wbstr O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

KJB-1769 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
(O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou/you hast covered my head in the day of battle. )

KJB-1611 O God the LORD, the strength of my saluation: thou hast couered my head in the day of battell.
(O God the LORD, the strength of my salvation: thou/you hast covered my head in the day of battle.)

Bshps O Lorde God the strength of my saluation: thou hast couered my head in the day of battayle.
(O Lord God the strength of my salvation: thou/you hast covered my head in the day of battayle.)

Gnva O Lord God the strength of my saluation, thou hast couered mine head in the day of battel.
(O Lord God the strength of my salvation, thou/you hast covered mine head in the day of battle. )

Cvdl O LORDE God, thou strength of my health, thou hast couered my heade in ye daye of battayll.
(O LORD God, thou/you strength of my health, thou/you hast covered my head in ye/you_all day of battle.)

Wycl for tho weren myyti. As fatnesse is brokun out on the erthe; oure bonys ben scatered niy helle. Lord, Lord,
(for those were mighty. As fatnesse is brokun out on the earth; our bonys been scatered niy helle. Lord, Lord,)

Luth Ich aber sage zum HErr’s: Du bist mein GOtt; HErr, vernimm die Stimme meines Flehens!
(I but said for_the LORD’s: You are my God; LORD, vernimm the voice my Flehens!)

ClVg Sicut crassitudo terræ erupta est super terram, dissipata sunt ossa nostra secus infernum.[fn]
(Sicut crassitudo terræ erupta it_is over the_earth/land, dissipata are ossa nostra secus infernum. )

140.7 Audient. ID. Aure obedientiæ, non sicut Adam, etc., usque ad maledictioni proximos. Crassitudo terræ. ID. Sunt quæ dam contemptibilia unde tamen terra accipit pinguedinem, etc., usque ad qui sunt ossa et firmamentum fidelium vel fidei.

140.7 Audient. ID. Aure obedientiæ, not/no like Adam, etc., until to maledictioni proximos. Crassitudo terræ. ID. Sunt which dam contemptibilia whence tamen earth/land accipit pinguedinem, etc., until to who are ossa and firmamentum fidelium or of_faith.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

you shield my head in the day of battle

(Some words not found in UHB: say to/for=YHWH God_of,my you(ms) give_ear, YHWH sound/voice supplications_of,my )

A person’s head is in great danger during battle. Protecting the person’s head represents protecting the whole person. Alternate translation: “you protect me when I go to war” (See also: figs-metaphor)

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

battle

(Some words not found in UHB: say to/for=YHWH God_of,my you(ms) give_ear, YHWH sound/voice supplications_of,my )

Here “battle” probably stands for any kind of severe trouble

Parallel PSA 140:7