PSA 79:10 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Why should the nations say, “Where is their god?”
⇔ Let your servants’ blood that was shed
⇔ be avenged on the nations before our eyes.

Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim.
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 Ὡδοποίησας ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῆς, καὶ κατεφύτευσας τὰς ῥίζας αὐτῆς, καὶ ἐπλήσθη ἡ γῆ.
(Hōdopoiaʸsas emprosthen autaʸs, kai katefuteusas tas ɽizas autaʸs, kai eplaʸsthaʸ haʸ gaʸ. )

BrTr Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it.

ULT Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
⇔ May the blood of your servants that was shed
⇔ be avenged on the nations before our eyes.

UST It is not right that the other people groups say about us,
⇔ “If their God is very powerful, why does he not help them?”
⇔ Allow us to see you punishing the people of other nations in return for their shedding our blood
⇔ and killing many of us, your people.

BSB Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
⇔ 

OEB Why should the nations say,
⇔ ‘Where is their God?’
⇔ Let revenge for the outpoured blood of your servants
⇔ be shown on the heathen before our eyes.

WEBBE Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
⇔ Let it be known amongst the nations, before our eyes,
⇔ that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
⇔ Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants
⇔ be avenged among the nations!

LSV Why do the nations say, “Where [is] their God?” Let [it] be known among the nations before our eyes,
The vengeance of the blood of Your servants that is shed.

FBV Why should the heathen nations be able to say, “Where is their God?” May they experience your punishment for shedding the blood of your servants, and may we see it.

T4T It is not right that [RHQ] other people-groups say about us,
⇔ “If their God is very powerful, ◄surely he should help them/why does he not help them►?”
⇔ Allow us to see you punishing the people of other nations in return for their shedding our blood;
⇔ they have killed many of us, your people.

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BBE Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.

Moff for why should pagans sneer,
⇔ “Where is their God?”
⇔ Oh may we live to see
⇔ thy vengeance fall on pagans
⇔ for spilling the blood of thy servants!

JPS Wherefore should the nations say: 'Where is their God?' Let the avenging of Thy servants' blood that is shed be made known among the nations in our sight.

ASV Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God?
⇔ Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed
⇔ Be known among the nations in our sight.

DRA Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

YLT Why do the nations say, 'Where [is] their God?' Let be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Thy servants that is shed.

Drby Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their [fn]God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants that is shed be known among the nations in our sight.

79.10 Elohim

RV Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the heathen in our sight.
(Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let the revenging of the blood of thy/your servants which is shed be known among the heathen in our sight. )

SLT Wherefore shall the nations say, Where is their God? He will make known among the nations before our eyes the vengeance of the blood of thy servants being poured out.

Wbstr Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of thy servants which is shed.

KJB-1769 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.[fn]
(Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy/your servants which is shed. )

79.10 revenging: Heb. vengeance

KJB-1611 [fn]Wherfore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be knowen among the heathen in our sight by the reuenging of the blood of thy seruants which is shed.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

79:10 Heb. vengeance.

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Gnva Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be knowen among the heathen in our sight by the vengeance of the blood of thy seruants that is shed.
(Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the vengeance of the blood of thy/your servants that is shed. )

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ClVg Dux itineris fuisti in conspectu ejus; plantasti radices ejus, et implevit terram.
(Dux journey you_were in/into/on in_sight his; you_planted radices his, and he_fulfilled the_earth/land. )

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UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

(Some words not found in UHB: to/for=what say the=nations where God_of,their known in/on/at/with,nations before,eyes_of,our avenging_of blood_of your=servants the,outpoured )

If your readers would misunderstand this question, you can express it as a statement. Alternate translation: “The nations should not be able to say, ‘Where is their God?’”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

Where is their God?

(Some words not found in UHB: to/for=what say the=nations where God_of,their known in/on/at/with,nations before,eyes_of,our avenging_of blood_of your=servants the,outpoured )

This taunt can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: “Their God cannot do anything!”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

May the blood of your servants that was shed be avenged on the nations before our eyes

(Some words not found in UHB: to/for=what say the=nations where God_of,their known in/on/at/with,nations before,eyes_of,our avenging_of blood_of your=servants the,outpoured )

To shed blood is a metonym for killing innocent people. This can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: “Avenge your innocent servants whom the nations killed where we can see you do it” (See also: figs-rquestion)

before our eyes

(Some words not found in UHB: to/for=what say the=nations where God_of,their known in/on/at/with,nations before,eyes_of,our avenging_of blood_of your=servants the,outpoured )

Alternate translation: “in our sight” or “while we are present”

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