PSA 58:2 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 Ἐξελοῦ με ἐκ τῶν ἐχθρῶν μου ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐπανισταμένων ἐπʼ ἐμὲ λύτρωσαί με.
(Exelou me ek tōn eⱪthrōn mou ho Theos, kai ek tōn epanistamenōn epʼ eme lutrōsai me. )

BrTr Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me.

ULT No, you commit wickedness in your heart;
⇔ you distribute violence throughout the land with your hands.

UST No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong,
⇔ and you commit violent crimes everywhere in this land of Israel.

BSB No, in your hearts you devise injustice;
⇔ with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

OEB In the land you practise iniquity – all of you;
⇔ violence do you dispense with your hands.

WEBBE No, in your heart you plot injustice.
⇔ You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET No! You plan how to do what is unjust;
⇔ you deal out violence in the earth.

LSV Even in heart you work iniquities,
In the land you ponder the violence of your hands.

FBV No, for in your minds you plan evil. You cause violence everywhere!

T4T No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong,
⇔ and you commit violent crimes in this land of Israel.

LEB • your heart you plan injustices; in the land[fn] you weigh out the violence of your hands.

58:? Or “on the earth”

BBE The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

Moff No, in secret you devise injustice,
⇔ and on earth you deal out violence.

JPS (58-3) Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out in the earth the violence of your hands.

ASV Nay, in heart ye work wickedness;
⇔ Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

DRA Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me.

YLT Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

Drby Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

RV Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

Wbstr Yes, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

KJB-1769 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
(Yea, in heart ye/you_all work wickedness; ye/you_all weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. )

KJB-1611 Yea, in heart you worke wickednesse; you waigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
(Yea, in heart you work wickednesse; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.)

Bshps Nay, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your handes waygh as in a ballaunce wickednes vpon the earth.
(Nay, rather ye/you_all imagine mischief in your heart: your hands weigh as in a balance wickedness upon the earth.)

Gnva Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
(Yea, rather ye/you_all imagine mischief in your heart: your hands execute cruelty upon the earth. )

Cvdl But ye ymagin myschefe in youre hertes, and youre hondes deale with wickednesse.
(But ye/you_all imagine mischief in your(pl) hearts, and your(pl) hands deal with wickednesse.)

Wycl Mi God, delyuer thou me fro myn enemyes; and delyuer thou me fro hem that risen ayens me.
(Mi God, deliver thou/you me from mine enemies; and deliver thou/you me from them that risen against me.)

Luth Seid ihr denn stumm, daß ihr nicht reden wollt, was recht ist; und richten, was gleich ist, ihr Menschenkinder?
(Seid you/their/her because stumm, that you/their/her not reden wollt, what/which recht is; and richten, what/which even is, you/their/her Menschenkinder?)

ClVg [Eripe me de inimicis meis, Deus meus, et ab insurgentibus in me libera me.[fn]
([Eripe me about inimicis mine, God mine, and away insurgentibus in me libera me. )

58.2 Eripe. Ibid. Dum qui sine macula est, hoc petit, quid necessario petamus, ostendit. De inimicis. CASS. Quatuor genera sunt adversariorum, etc., usque ad de his ergo ait: Eripe me, etc.

58.2 Eripe. Ibid. Dum who without macula it_is, this petit, quid necessario petamus, ostendit. De inimicis. CASS. Quatuor genera are adversariorum, etc., until to about his therefore he_said: Eripe me, etc.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / you

you & your

(Some words not found in UHB: ?,indeed gods what_is_right speak, fairly judge sons_of humankind )

The words “you” and “your” refer to the mighty men who are judges (Psalm 58:1) and so is plural.

(Some words not found in UHB: ?,indeed gods what_is_right speak, fairly judge sons_of humankind )

The author answers the two questions he had just asked.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

you commit wickedness in your heart

(Some words not found in UHB: ?,indeed gods what_is_right speak, fairly judge sons_of humankind )

The heart refers to the people’s thoughts or plans. Alternate translation: “you commit wickedness in your thoughts” or “you think about doing wicked things”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

you distribute violence throughout the land with your hands

(Some words not found in UHB: ?,indeed gods what_is_right speak, fairly judge sons_of humankind )

Doing violence in various places throughout the land is spoken of as distributing or spreading the violence throughout the land, as if violence were some kind of stuff or things. Alternate translation: “you yourselves do violent deeds everywhere in the land”

Parallel PSA 58:2