PSA 32:4 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=David (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 (PSA 31:4) Ὅτι ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτὸς ἐβαρύνθη ἐπʼ ἐμὲ ἡ χείρ σου, ἐστράφην εἰς ταλαιπωρίαν ἐν τῷ ἐμπαγῆναι ἄκανθαν· διάψαλμα.
(Hoti haʸmeras kai nuktos ebarunthaʸ epʼ eme haʸ ⱪeir sou, estrafaʸn eis talaipōrian en tōi empagaʸnai akanthan; diapsalma.)

BrTr (PSA 31:4) For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a [fn]thorn was fastened in me. Pause.

ULT For by day and night your hand was heavy upon me.
⇔ My vitality was changed, as by the heat of summer. Selah

UST Day and night, Yahweh, you afflicted me.
⇔ My strength was sapped like it would be on a hot summer day. Selah

BSB For day and night
⇔ Your hand was heavy upon me;
⇔ my strength was drained[fn]
⇔ as in the summer heat. Selah

32:4 Or my vitality was turned

OEB for day and night did your hand
⇔ lie heavy upon me.
⇔ The sap of my life was dried up
⇔ as with fierce summer-heat. Selah

WEBBE For day and night your hand was heavy on me.
⇔ My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

NET For day and night you tormented me;
⇔ you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer. (Selah)

LSV When by day and by night Your hand is heavy on me,
My moisture has been changed
Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

FBV You beat me day and night,[fn] my strength dried up as in the heat of summer. Selah.

32:4 Literally, “Your hand was heavy on me.”

T4T Day and night, Yahweh, you [SYN] punished me severely.
⇔ My strength drained away like water that ◄evaporates/dries up► on a hot summer day.
⇔ (Think about that!)

LEB • For day and night your hand was heavy upon me.
• My vigor was changed into the dry heat of summer. Selah

BBE For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

Moff for thy hand crushed me night and day,
⇔ my body dried up as in summer heat.

JPS For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned as in the droughts of summer. Selah

ASV For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me:
⇔ My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. [Selah

DRA (PSA 31:4) For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.

YLT When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

Drby For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

RV For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah
(For day and night thy/your hand was heavy upon me: my moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah)

SLT For day and night thy hand will be heavy upon me: my moisture was turned into the dryness of summer. Silence.

Wbstr For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drouth of summer. Selah.

KJB-1769 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
(For day and night thy/your hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.)

KJB-1611 For day and night thy hand was heauy vpon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps For thy hande is heauie vpon me day and night: and my moysture is like the drouth in sommer. Selah.
(For thy/your hand is heavy upon me day and night: and my moisture is like the drouth in summer. Selah.)

Gnva (For thine hand is heauie vpon me, day and night: and my moysture is turned into ye drought of summer. Selah)
((For thine/your hand is heavy upon me, day and night: and my moisture is turned into ye/you_all drought of summer. Selah))

Cvdl And because thy hande was so heuy vpon me both daye and night, my moysture was like the drouth in Sommer. Sela.
(And because thy/your hand was so heavy upon me both day and night, my moisture was like the drouth in Summer. Sela.)

Wycl (PSA 31:4) For bi dai and nyyt thin `hond was maad greuouse on me; Y am turned in my wretchednesse, while the thorn is set in.
(For by day and night thin hand was made grievous on me; I am turned in my wretchedness, while the thorn is set in.)

Luth Denn deine Hand war Tag und Nacht schwer auf mir, daß mein Saft vertrocknete, wie es im Sommer dürre wird. Sela.
(Because your hand what/which day and night difficult/heavy on/in/to to_me, that my sap/juice dried_out, as/like it in_the summer have_a_drought becomes. Sela.)

ClVg (PSA 31:4) Quoniam die ac nocte gravata est super me manus tua, conversus sum in ærumna mea, dum configitur spina.[fn]
(Since day and at_night burdened it_is over me hands your, turned_around I_am in/into/on drought/hardships my, while is_fastened thorn.)

31.4 Configitur spina. CASS. Spina, quæ totum corpus erigit, id est, superbia. AUG. Item ærumna, etc., usque ad: in manibus temulenti.

31.4 Is_fastened thorn. CASS. Thorn, which whole body raises, that it_is, pride. AUG. Likewise drought/hardships, etc., until to: in/into/on hands drunken.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / merism

יוֹמָ֣ם וָ⁠לַיְלָה֮

day and,night

The psalmist is referring to all of time by naming two major components, day and night. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: [continually] or [all of the time]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

תִּכְבַּ֥ד עָלַ֗⁠י יָ֫דֶ֥⁠ךָ

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when day and,night heavy on,me hand_of,your dried_up juice_of,my by_[the],dry_heat(s)_of summer selah )

David is using your hand was heavy upon me as a common expression of his culture to mean that God afflicted or disciplined him severely. If this phrase does not have that meaning in your language, you could use a comparable expression from your language that does have that meaning, or you could state the meaning plainly as in the UST.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ לְשַׁדִּ֑⁠י

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when day and,night heavy on,me hand_of,your dried_up juice_of,my by_[the],dry_heat(s)_of summer selah )

The expression My vitality was changed is a passive verbal form. If your language would not use that form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. If you need to say who does the action, the context indicates that it is God. Alternate translation: [God drained my strength] or [My strength dried up]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

נֶהְפַּ֥ךְ לְשַׁדִּ֑⁠י בְּ⁠חַרְבֹ֖נֵי קַ֣יִץ

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when day and,night heavy on,me hand_of,your dried_up juice_of,my by_[the],dry_heat(s)_of summer selah )

The point of this comparison is that just as the heat of summer is extremely intense and withering, so David’s vitality was changed due to his unconfessed sin. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this point explicitly. Alternate translation: [My strength was completely drained like something withered by intense heat]

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