PSA 78:2 Parallel Verse View

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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 Ἔθεντο τὰ θνησιμαῖα τῶν δούλων σου βρώματα τοῖς πετεινοῖς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, τὰς σάρκας τῶν ὁσίων σου τοῖς θηρίοις τῆς γῆς.
(Ethento ta thnaʸsimaia tōn doulōn sou brōmata tois peteinois tou ouranou, tas sarkas tōn hosiōn sou tois thaʸriois taʸs gaʸs. )

BrTr They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.

ULT I will open my mouth in parables;
⇔ I will sing about hidden things about the past.

UST I am going to give you some sayings that wise people have said.
⇔ They will be sayings about things that happened long ago,
⇔ things that were difficult to understand.

BSB ⇔ I will open my mouth in parables;
⇔ I will utter things hidden from the beginning,[fn]

78:2 Or from ancient times; see also LXX; cited in Matthew 13:35

OEB as I open my mouth in a poem
⇔ on the riddling story of the past.

WEBBE I will open my mouth in a parable.
⇔ I will utter dark sayings of old,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET I will sing a song that imparts wisdom;
⇔ I will make insightful observations about the past.

LSV I open my mouth with an allegory,
I bring forth hidden things of old,

FBV I will tell you wise sayings;[fn] I will explain mysteries from the past

78:2 Or “proverbs.”

T4T I am going to give you some sayings that wise people have said.
⇔ They will be sayings about things that happened long ago,
⇔ things that were difficult to understand [MET],

LEB • [fn] a parable with my mouth. I will pour out riddles from long ago,

78:? Hebrew “open”

BBE Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;

Moff as I open my lips in a poem
⇔ on the deep lessons of the past,

JPS I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old;

ASV I will open my mouth in a parable;
⇔ I will utter dark sayings of old,

DRA They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.

YLT I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,

Drby I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,

RV I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old:

Wbstr I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

KJB-1769 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

KJB-1611 [fn]I will open my mouth in a parable: I wil vtter darke sayings of old:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

78:2 Psal.49.5. matth. 13. 35.

Bshps I wyll open my mouth in a parable: I wyll declare harde sentences of the olde tyme past.
(I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare hard sentences of the old time past.)

Gnva I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.

Cvdl I wil open my mouth in parables, and speake of thinges of olde.
(I will open my mouth in parables, and speak of things of olde.)

Wycl Thei settiden the slayn bodies of thi seruauntis, meetis to the volatilis of heuenes; the fleischis of thi seyntis to the beestis of the erthe.
(They settiden the slain/killed bodies of thy/your servants, meetis to the volatilis of heavens; the fleshis of thy/your seyntis to the beasts/animals of the earth.)

Luth Ich will meinen Mund auftun zu Sprüchen und alte Geschichte aussprechen,
(I will my Mund auftun to Sprüchen and alte Geschichte aussprechen,)

ClVg Posuerunt morticina servorum tuorum escas volatilibus cæli; carnes sanctorum tuorum bestiis terræ.[fn]
(Posuerunt morticina servorum tuorum escas volatilibus cæli; carnes sanctorum tuorum bestiis terræ. )

78.2 Morticina. CASS. Cadavera, quasi non modo in viventes sæviunt. Sepelire pietatis est, abjicere crudelitatis. Effuderunt. ID. Exaggerat, ut judicem moveat.

78.2 Morticina. CASS. Cadavera, as_if not/no modo in viventes sæviunt. Sepelire pietatis it_is, abyicere crudelitatis. Effuderunt. ID. Exaggerat, as yudicem moveat.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

open my mouth in parables

(Some words not found in UHB: open in/on/at/with,parable mouth,my utter dark_sayings from of_old )

The idiom “open my mouth” means to speak. Alternate translation: “speak in parables”

sing about

(Some words not found in UHB: open in/on/at/with,parable mouth,my utter dark_sayings from of_old )

“tell.” See how “pours out” is translated in Psalms 19:2.

hidden things

(Some words not found in UHB: open in/on/at/with,parable mouth,my utter dark_sayings from of_old )

If your language has a word for sayings that are purposely difficult to understand, you might use it here.

Parallel PSA 78:2