PSA 78:63 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Fire devoured their young men,
⇔ and their young women had no wedding songs.

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).

ULT Fire devoured their young men,
⇔ and their young women had no wedding songs.

UST Fire destroyed the young men,
⇔ and no one sang wedding songs for the young women.

BSB Fire consumed His young men,
⇔ and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

MSB (Same as BSB above)

OEB Fire devoured their young men,
⇔ and their maidens had no marriage-song.

WEBBE Fire devoured their young men.
⇔ Their virgins had no wedding song.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Fire consumed their young men,
⇔ and their virgins remained unmarried.

LSV Fire has consumed His young men,
And His virgins have not been praised.

FBV Their young men were destroyed by fire; their young women had no wedding songs.[fn]

78:63 Literally, “were not praised.” Either that the men were dead so they could not marry, or they were killed themselves.

T4T Young men were killed in battles,
⇔ with the result that the young women had no one to marry.

LEB • Fire devoured his young men,
• and his young women[fn] were not praised.

78:? Or “virgins”

BBE Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song.

Moff till their youths fell in the flames of war,
⇔ and girls had never a wedding song,

JPS Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had no marriage-song.

ASV Fire devoured their young men;
⇔ And their virgins had no marriage-song.

DRA No DRA PSA 78:63 verse available

YLT His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.

Drby The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;

RV Fire devoured their young men; and their maidens had no marriage-song.

SLT The fire devoured his young men, and his virgins wailed not.

Wbstr The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

KJB-1769 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.[fn]

78.63 given…: Heb. praised

KJB-1611 [fn]The fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not giuen to mariage.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation and footnotes)

78:63 Heb. praised.

Bshps Fire consumed his young men: and his maydens were not maryed.
(Fire consumed his young men: and his maidens were not married.)

Gnva The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.
(The fire devoured their chosen men, and their maids were not praised.)

Cvdl He gaue his people ouer in to the swerde, for he was wroth with his heretage.
(He gave his people over in to the sword, for he was wroth with his heritage.)

Wycl No Wycl PSA 78:63 verse available

Luth Ihre junge Mannschaft fraß das Feuer, und ihre Jungfrauen mußten ungefreiet bleiben.
(Her young team ate the fire(n), and their/her virgins had_ton unfree remain/stay.)

ClVg No ClVg PSA 78:63 verse available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / merism

בַּחוּרָ֥י⁠ו אָֽכְלָה־אֵ֑שׁ וּ֝⁠בְתוּלֹתָ֗י⁠ו לֹ֣א הוּלָּֽלוּ

(Some words not found in UHB: men_of,its_young eating fire and,its_young_of,women not had_~_marriagesong )

The phrases Fire consumed his young men and his virgins were not praised mean opposite things but work together to show the devastating completeness of the judgment. For emphasis, the psalmist is describing both the death of young men and the corresponding lack of marriage celebrations. If a speaker of your language would not use this kind of contrast, in your translation you can convey the emphasis in a different way. Alternate translation: [Fire consumed his young men so that his virgins had no weddings]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

בַּחוּרָ֥י⁠ו אָֽכְלָה־אֵ֑שׁ

(Some words not found in UHB: men_of,its_young eating fire and,its_young_of,women not had_~_marriagesong )

The psalmist speaks of Fire as if it were a person that could actively consume people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [His young men died in fires] or [His young men were burned to death]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

וּ֝⁠בְתוּלֹתָ֗י⁠ו לֹ֣א הוּלָּֽלוּ

and,its_young_of,women not (Some words not found in UHB: men_of,its_young eating fire and,its_young_of,women not had_~_marriagesong )

If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [and no one praised his virgins in wedding songs] or [and no one sang wedding songs for his virgins]

Parallel PSA 78:63