PSA 148:4 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=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 Αἰνεῖτε αὐτόν οἱ οὐρανοὶ τῶν οὐρανῶν, καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ ὑπεράνω τῶν οὐρανῶν.
(Aineite auton hoi ouranoi tōn ouranōn, kai to hudōr to huperanō tōn ouranōn. )

BrTr Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and the water that is above the heavens.

ULT Praise him, highest heavens
⇔ and the waters that are above the heavens.

UST You highest heavens, praise him!
⇔ You waters that are high above the sky, praise him!

OEB Praise him, you highest heavens,
⇔ and you waters above the heavens.

WEBBE Praise him, you heavens of heavens,
⇔ you waters that are above the heavens.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Praise him, O highest heaven,
⇔ and you waters above the sky!

LSV Praise Him, heavens of heavens,
And you waters that are above the heavens.

FBV Praise him, highest heavens, and the waters above the heavens![fn]

148:4 Understood as the heavenly dome above, where rain came from.

T4T You highest heavens, praise him!
⇔ And you waters that are high above the sky, praise him!

LEB • [fn] and waters above the heavens.

148:? Literally “heavens of the heavens”

BBE Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.

Moff praise him, heaven of heavens,
⇔ ye waters higher than the heavens!

JPS Praise Him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens.

ASV Praise him, ye heavens of heavens,
⇔ And ye waters that are above the heavens.

DRA Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens

YLT Praise ye Him, heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens.

Drby Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens.

RV Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.

Wbstr Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens.

KJB-1769 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.
(Praise him, ye/you_all heavens of heavens, and ye/you_all waters that be above the heavens. )

KJB-1611 Praise him ye heauens of heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Prayse ye hym all ye heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens.
(Praise ye/you_all him all ye/you_all heavens: and ye/you_all waters that be above the heavens.)

Gnva Prayse ye him, heauens of heauens, and waters, that be aboue the heauens.
(Praise ye/you_all him, heavens of heavens, and waters, that be above the heavens. )

Cvdl Prayse him all ye heauens, & ye waters yt be vnder the heauens.
(Praise him all ye/you_all heavens, and ye/you_all waters it be under the heavens.)

Wycl Heuenes of heuenes, herie ye hym; and the watris that ben aboue heuenes,
(Heuenes of heavens, herie ye/you_all him; and the waters that been above heavens,)

Luth Lobet ihn, ihr Himmel allenthalben, und die Wasser, die oben am Himmel sind!
(Lobet him/it, you/their/her heaven allenthalben, and the water, the above in/at/on_the heaven sind!)

ClVg Laudate eum, cæli cælorum; et aquæ omnes quæ super cælos sunt,
(Laudate him, heavens cælorum; and awhich everyone which over cælos are, )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

Praise him, highest heaven

(Some words not found in UHB: praise,him heavens_of the=heavens and,the,waters which/who from=under the=heavens )

The phrase “highest heaven” is an idiom that refers to heaven itself. The writer speaks to heaven as if it were a person and commands it to praise Yahweh. Alternate translation: “Praise Yahweh, highest heaven, as people do”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

you waters that are above the sky

(Some words not found in UHB: praise,him heavens_of the=heavens and,the,waters which/who from=under the=heavens )

The writer speaks to “the waters that are above the sky” as if they are people and commands them to praise Yahweh. The verbal phrase can be supplied from the previous line. Alternate translation: “praise him, you waters that are above the sky, as people do” (See also: figs-ellipsis)

waters that are above the sky

(Some words not found in UHB: praise,him heavens_of the=heavens and,the,waters which/who from=under the=heavens )

The writer speaks of a place above the sky where water is stored and from which the rain comes.

Parallel PSA 148:4