PSA 42:8 Parallel Verse View

Note: This view shows ‘verses’ which are not natural language units and hence sometimes only part of a sentence will be visible. Normally the OET discourages the reading of individual ‘verses’, but this view is only designed for doing comparisons of different translations. Click on any Bible version abbreviation down the left-hand side to see the verse in more of its context. The OET segments on this page are still very early looks into the unfinished texts of the Open English Translation of the Bible. Please double-check these texts in advance before using in public.

Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

42:9 Note: KJB: Ps.42.8

42:9 Variant note: שיר/ה: (x-qere) ’שִׁיר֣/וֹ’: lemma_7892 a morph_HNcbsc/Sp3ms id_196iZ שִׁיר֣/וֹ

Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim, 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).

ULT During the day, Yahweh commands his covenant faithfulness,
⇔ and in the night, his song is with me—
⇔ a prayer to the God of my life.

UST Yahweh faithfully loves me every day,
⇔ and so he causes me to sing to him every night
⇔ a prayer to God, who keeps me alive.

BSB The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day,
⇔ and at night His song is with me
⇔ as a prayer to the God of my life.

OEB ⇔ In the day I cry to the Lord
⇔ to summon his kindness;
⇔ and the song that I sing in the night
⇔ is a prayer to the living God.

WEBBE ⇔ GOD[fn] will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
⇔ In the night his song shall be with me:
⇔ a prayer to the God of my life.

42:8 When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).

WMBB ⇔ GOD[fn] will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
⇔ In the night his song shall be with me:
⇔ a prayer to the God of my life.

42:8 When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name.

NET By day the Lord decrees his loyal love,
⇔ and by night he gives me a song,
⇔ a prayer to the living God.

LSV By day YHWH commands His kindness,
And by night a song [is] with me,
A prayer to the God of my life.

FBV But every day the Lord shows me his trustworthy love; every night he gives me songs to sing—a prayer to the God of my life.

T4T ⇔ Yahweh shows me each day that he faithfully loves me,
⇔ and each night I sing to him
⇔ and pray to him, the God who causes me to live.

LEB • By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song is with me,
• a prayer to the God of my life.

BBE But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Moff ⇔ My soul is downcast; so I remember thee
⇔ in this far land of Jordan and of Hermon,
⇔ at mount Mizar.

JPS (42-9) By day the LORD will command His lovingkindness, and in the night His song shall be with me, even a prayer unto the God of my life.

ASV Yet Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time;
⇔ And in the night his song shall be with me,
⇔ Even a prayer unto the God of my life.

DRA No DRA PSA 42:8 verse available

YLT By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song [is] with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

Drby In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the [fn]God of my life.

42.8 El

RV Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me, even a prayer unto the God of my life.

Wbstr Yet the LORD will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life.

KJB-1769 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
(Yet the LORD will command his loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. )

KJB-1611 Yet the LORD will command his louing kindnes in the day time, and in the night his song shalbe with me, and my prayer vnto the God of my life.
(Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.)

Bshps God wyll graunt his louing kindnesse on the day tyme: and in the nyght season I wyll syng of hym, and make my prayer vnto the Lorde of my lyfe.
(God will grant his loving-kindness on the day time: and in the night season I will syng of him, and make my prayer unto the Lord of my life.)

Gnva The Lord will graunt his louing kindenesse in the day, and in the night shall I sing of him, euen a prayer vnto the God of my life.
(The Lord will grant his loving-kindness in the day, and in the night shall I sing of him, even a prayer unto the God of my life. )

Cvdl I wil saye vnto God my stony rock: why hast thou forgotten me? why go I thus heuely, whyle the enemie oppresseth me?
(I will say unto God my stony rock: why hast thou/you forgotten me? why go I thus heuely, while the enemy oppresseth me?)

Wycl No Wycl PSA 42:8 verse available

Luth Deine Fluten rauschen daher, daß hie eine Tiefe und da eine Tiefe brausen; alle deine Wasserwogen und Wellen gehen über mich.
(Deine Fluten rauschen daher, that here one depth and there one depth brausen; all your waterwogen and Wellen go above mich.)

ClVg No ClVg PSA 42:8 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

יוֹמָ֤ם ׀ יְצַוֶּ֬ה יְהוָ֨ה ׀ חַסְדּ֗⁠וֹ וּ֭⁠בַ⁠לַּיְלָה שִׁיר֣וֹ עִמִּ֑⁠י

(Some words not found in UHB: deep to/towards deep calls to=sound/voice waterfalls_of,your all/each/any/every breakers_of,your and,waves_of,your over,me swept )

The author speaks of covenant faithfulness as if it were a person that Yahweh could command. Likewise, the author speaks of his song as if it were a person that could be present with him. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “During the day, Yahweh performs his steadfast love, and in the night, I sign a song about him”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

יוֹמָ֤ם ׀ יְצַוֶּ֬ה יְהוָ֨ה ׀ חַסְדּ֗⁠וֹ

(Some words not found in UHB: deep to/towards deep calls to=sound/voice waterfalls_of,your all/each/any/every breakers_of,your and,waves_of,your over,me swept )

Here, the author leaves out the implied information that Yahweh commands his steadfast love to be with the author. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could express that explicitly. Alternate translation: “Yahweh commands his steadfast love to be with me”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

יוֹמָ֤ם ׀ יְצַוֶּ֬ה יְהוָ֨ה ׀ חַסְדּ֗⁠וֹ

(Some words not found in UHB: deep to/towards deep calls to=sound/voice waterfalls_of,your all/each/any/every breakers_of,your and,waves_of,your over,me swept )

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of faithfulness, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “Yahweh is faithful to his covenant during the day”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

לְ⁠אֵ֣ל חַיָּֽ⁠י

(Some words not found in UHB: deep to/towards deep calls to=sound/voice waterfalls_of,your all/each/any/every breakers_of,your and,waves_of,your over,me swept )

Here, the author is using the possessive form to describe how God is the one who sustains his life If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this plainly. Alternate translation: “to the God who sustains my life” or “to the God who causes me to live”

Parallel PSA 42:8