PSA 31:16 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).

ULT Make your face shine on your servant;
⇔ save me in your covenant faithfulness.

UST Act kindly toward me
⇔ and rescue me because you always faithfully love me.

BSB Make Your face shine on Your servant;
⇔ save me by Your loving devotion.

OEB Make your face to shine on your servant,
⇔ save me in your love.

WEBBE Make your face to shine on your servant.
⇔ Save me in your loving kindness.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Smile on your servant!
⇔ Deliver me because of your faithfulness!

LSV Cause Your face to shine on Your servant,
Save me in Your kindness.

FBV May you look kindly on me,[fn] your servant. Save me because of your trustworthy love.

31:16 Literally, “Let your face shine upon me.”

T4T Be kind to me
⇔ and rescue me because you always faithfully love me.

LEB • Shine your face upon your servant. Save me by your loyal love.

BBE Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour.

Moff smile on thy servant,
⇔ in thy love succour me.

JPS (31-17) Make Thy face to shine upon Thy servant; save me in Thy lovingkindness.

ASV Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:
⇔ Save me in thy lovingkindness.

DRA No DRA PSA 31:16 verse available

YLT Cause Thy face to shine on Thy servant, Save me in Thy kindness.

Drby Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.

RV Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me in thy lovingkindness.

Wbstr Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

KJB-1769 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.
(Make thy/your face to shine upon thy/your servant: save me for thy/your mercies’ sake. )

KJB-1611 Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant: saue me for thy mercies sake.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps Cause thy countenaunce to shine vppon thy seruaunt: saue me for thy mercies sake.
(Cause thy/your countenance to shine uppon thy/your servant: save me for thy/your mercies sake.)

Gnva Make thy face to shine vpon thy seruant, and saue me through thy mercie.
(Make thy/your face to shine upon thy/your servant, and save me through thy/your mercy. )

Cvdl But my hope is in ye O LORDE, & I saye: thou art my God.
(But my hope is in ye/you_all O LORD, and I say: thou/you art my God.)

Wycl No Wycl PSA 31:16 verse available

Luth Meine Zeit stehet in deinen Händen. Errette mich von der Hand meiner Feinde und von denen, die mich verfolgen.
(My time stands in deinen hands. Errette me from the/of_the hand mine enemies and from denen, the me verfolgen.)

ClVg No ClVg PSA 31:16 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

Make your face shine on your servant

(Some words not found in UHB: in/on/at/with,hand_of,your times_of,my deliver,me from,hand_of enemies_of,my and,from,persecutors_of,me )

The writer speaks of Yahweh acting favorably towards him as if Yahweh’s face shone a light on him. Alternate translation: “Act favorably towards your servant”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

save me in your covenant faithfulness

(Some words not found in UHB: in/on/at/with,hand_of,your times_of,my deliver,me from,hand_of enemies_of,my and,from,persecutors_of,me )

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: “save me because you are faithful to your covenant”

Parallel PSA 31:16