PSA 72:1 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) A song by Shelomoh (Solomon).
⇔ Give the king your righteous decrees, God,
⇔ ≈ your righteousness to the king’s son.

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 Ψαλμὸς τῷ Ἀσάφ.
¶ Ὡς ἀγαθὸς ὁ Θεὸς τῷ Ἰσραὴλ, τοῖς εὐθέσι καρδίᾳ.
(psalmos tōi Asaf.
¶ Hōs agathos ho Theos tōi Israaʸl, tois euthesi kardia.)

BrTr A Psalm for Asaph.
¶ How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart!

ULT A Psalm of Solomon Give the king your righteous decrees, God,
⇔ your righteousness to the king’s son.

UST A psalm of Solomon.
⇔ O God, please enable the man who is now succeeding his father as king
⇔ to judge cases rightly, as you would do.

BSB Of Solomon.
⇔ Endow the king with Your justice, O God,
⇔ and the son of the king with Your righteousness.

MSB (Same as BSB above)

OEB Of Solomon.
⇔ Give the king, O God, your own spirit of justice
⇔ your spirit of right to the son of the king,

WEBBE God, give the king your justice;
⇔ your righteousness to the royal son.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET O God, grant the king the ability to make just decisions!
⇔ Grant the king’s son the ability to make fair decisions!

LSV BY SOLOMON. O God, give Your judgments to the king,
And Your righteousness to the king’s Son.

FBV God, please give the king fairness, and give the king's son the ability to do what's right.

T4T A psalm written by Solomon.
⇔ O God, enable me, the king whom you appointed in Israel, to rule justly.
⇔ Show/Teach me how to judge matters fairly

LEB • Of Solomon.[fn]
• O God, give your judgments to the king,
• and your righteousness to the king’s son.

72:? The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm

BBE Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.

Moff Inspire the king, O God, with thine own justice,
⇔ endow his majesty with thine own equity,

JPS A Psalm of Solomon. Give the king Thy judgments, O God, and Thy righteousness unto the king's son;

ASV Give the king thy judgments, O God,
⇔ And thy righteousness unto the king’s son.

DRA A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

YLT By Solomon. O God, Thy judgments to the king give, And Thy righteousness to the king's son.

Drby O [fn]God, give the king thy judgments, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

72.1 Elohim

RV Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.
(Give the king thy/your judgements, Oh God, and thy/your righteousness unto the king’s son.)

SLT To Solomon. O God, thou wilt give thy judgments to the king, and thy justice to the king’s son.

Wbstr A Psalm for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness to the king's son.

KJB-1769 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.[fn]
(Give the king thy/your judgements, Oh God, and thy/your righteousness unto the king’s son.)

72.1 for: or, of

KJB-1611 ¶ Giue the King thy Iudgements, O God, and thy Righteousnesse vnto the Kings sonne.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps Of Solomon. O God geue vnto the kyng thy iudgementes: and thy ryghteousnesse vnto the kynges sonne.
(Of Solomon. Oh God give unto the king thy/your judgements: and thy/your righteousness unto the kings son.)

Gnva A Psalme of Salomon. Give thy iudgements to the King, O God, and thy righteousnesse to the Kings sonne.
(A Psalm of Solomon. Give thy/your judgements to the King, Oh God, and thy/your righteousness to the Kings son.)

Cvdl Geue the kinge thy iudgmet (o God) and thy rightuousnesse vnto the kynges sonne.
(Give the king thy/your judgement (o God) and thy/your righteousness unto the kings son.)

Wycl The `title of the two and seuentithe salm. `The salm of Asaph. God of Israel is ful good; to hem that ben of riytful herte.
(The title of the two and seventieth psalm. The psalm of Asaph. God of Israel is full good; to hem that been of rightful heart.)

Luth Des Salomo GOtt, gib dein Gericht dem Könige und deine Gerechtigkeit des Königs Sohne,
(The Salomo God, give your(s) court(n)/justice to_him king(s) and your justice the kings sons,)

ClVg Psalmus Asaph. [Quam bonus Israël Deus, his qui recto sunt corde ![fn]
(Psalm Asaph. [How good/kind/gracious Israel God, his who/which straight are heart !)

72.1 Quam bonus. CAS. Monet ut non pro temporalibus, sed æternis Deum laudemus.

72.1 How good/kind/gracious. CAS. Monet as not/no for temporal, but eternal God praiseus.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / imperative

אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים מִ֭שְׁפָּטֶי⁠ךָ לְ⁠מֶ֣לֶךְ תֵּ֑ן

ʼElohīm (Some words not found in UHB: of,Solomon ʼElohīm judgments_of,your to_[the],king give and,righteousness_of,your to_[the],son_of king )

The psalmist is using an imperative, but he is communicating a polite request to God rather than a command. If the imperative does not communicate a polite request for your readers, then use a form in your language that communicates a polite request. It may be helpful to add an expression such as “please” to make this clear. Alternate translation: [God, please give your judgments to the king]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

מִ֭שְׁפָּטֶי⁠ךָ לְ⁠מֶ֣לֶךְ תֵּ֑ן וְ⁠צִדְקָתְ⁠ךָ֥ לְ⁠בֶן־מֶֽלֶךְ

(Some words not found in UHB: of,Solomon ʼElohīm judgments_of,your to_[the],king give and,righteousness_of,your to_[the],son_of king )

These two phrases mean basically the same thing. The second emphasizes the meaning of the first by repeating the same idea with different words. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could combine them and express the emphasis in another way. Another approach would be to connect the phrases with a word that shows that the second phrase is repeating the first one, not saying something additional. See how you as a team have decided to translate the parallel phrases in the Psalms, and follow that approach here and throughout this psalm. Alternate translation: [give your just decisions to the king, yes, give your righteousness to the king’s son]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

מִ֭שְׁפָּטֶי⁠ךָ

(Some words not found in UHB: of,Solomon ʼElohīm judgments_of,your to_[the],king give and,righteousness_of,your to_[the],son_of king )

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of judgments, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [your ability to judge rightly]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

וְ⁠צִדְקָתְ⁠ךָ֥ לְ⁠בֶן־מֶֽלֶךְ

and,righteousness_of,your to_[the],son_of king

The psalmist is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [and give your righteousness to the son of the king]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

וְ⁠צִדְקָתְ⁠ךָ֥

and,righteousness_of,your

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of righteousness, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [your righteous character]

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

לְ⁠בֶן־מֶֽלֶךְ

to_[the],son_of king

The psalmist is using this possessive form to describe a social relationship. The son of the king refers to the king’s offspring. If a speaker of your language would not use the possessive form for this, you could express this idea in another way. Alternate translation: [the king’s son]

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