PSA 78:50 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative.
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 He leveled a path for his anger;
⇔ he did not spare them from death
⇔ but gave them over to the plague.

UST He did not lessen his anger with them,
⇔ and he did not spare their lives;
⇔ he sent a plague that killed many of them.

BSB He cleared a path for His anger;
⇔ He did not spare them from death
⇔ but delivered their lives to the plague.

OEB He cleared a path for his anger,
⇔ did not spare them from death,
⇔ but gave them over to pestilence.

WEBBE He made a path for his anger.
⇔ He didn’t spare their soul from death,
⇔ but gave their life over to the pestilence,

WMBB (Same as above)

NET He sent his anger in full force;
⇔ he did not spare them from death;
⇔ he handed their lives over to destruction.

LSV He ponders a path for His anger,
He did not keep back their soul from death,
Indeed, He delivered up their life to the pestilence.

FBV He sent his unrestrained anger against them; he did not spare them from death, handing them over to the plague.

T4T He did not lessen his being angry with them,
⇔ and he did not ◄spare their lives/prevent them from dying►;
⇔ he sent a ◄plague/serious illness► that killed many of them.

LEB • He did not spare them[fn] from death • but handed their life over to the plague.

78:? Hebrew “their soul”

BBE He let his wrath have its way; he did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life to disease.

Moff straight and swift his anger sped, unsparing,
⇔ letting the deadly pestilence prey on life;

JPS He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

ASV He made a path for his anger;
⇔ He spared not their soul from death,
⇔ But gave their life over to the pestilence,

DRA No DRA PSA 78:50 verse available

YLT He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.

Drby He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

RV He made a path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

Wbstr He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

KJB-1769 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;[fn][fn]

78.50 He made…: Heb. He weighed a path

78.50 life…: or, beasts to the murrain

KJB-1611 [fn][fn]He made a way to his anger, hee spared not their soule from death: but gaue their life ouer to the pestilence.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

78:50 Heb. he waighed a path.

78:50 Or, their beasts, to the murreine, Exod.9.3.

Bshps He made away to his indignation, & spared not their soule from death: he gaue their lyfe to be subiect to the pestilence.
(He made away to his indignation, and spared not their soul from death: he gave their life to be subiect to the pestilence.)

Gnva He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,
(He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life to the pestilence, )

Cvdl How he sent vpon them ye furiousnesse of his wrath, anger & displeasure: with trouble and fallinge in of euel angels.
(How he sent upon them ye/you_all furiousnesse of his wrath, anger and displeasure: with trouble and fallinge in of euel angels.)

Wycl No Wycl PSA 78:50 verse available

Luth da er seinen Zorn ließ fortgehen und ihre Seelen vor dem Tode nicht verschonete und ließ ihr Vieh an der Pestilenz sterben;
(da he his anger let fortgehen and their/her Seelen before/in_front_of to_him Tode not verschonete and let you/their/her Vieh at the/of_the Pestilenz die;)

ClVg No ClVg PSA 78:50 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

He leveled a path for his anger

(Some words not found in UHB: cleared path for,anger,his not spare from,death soul,their and,lives,their to_the,plague gave_~_over )

The psalmist speaks of anger as if it were a person who could walk Yahweh getting ready to punish the people as if he were making a smooth road for a person to walk on. Alternate translation: “He was so angry that he did everything he could to harm them” or “It was as if his anger was an army and he made a smooth road for it to march on” (See also: figs-personification)

he did not spare them from death

(Some words not found in UHB: cleared path for,anger,his not spare from,death soul,their and,lives,their to_the,plague gave_~_over )

Alternate translation: “he did not keep the Egyptians from dying” or “he did not permit the Egyptians to live”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

gave them over to the plague

(Some words not found in UHB: cleared path for,anger,his not spare from,death soul,their and,lives,their to_the,plague gave_~_over )

Asaph speaks of the plague as if it were a person who was going to harm the Egyptians. Alternate translation: “he made them all very ill with the plague” (See also: figs-personification)

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