PSA 81:4 Parallel Verse View

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Original PSA 81:5: Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

BrLXX (PSA 80:5) Ὅτι πρόσταγμα τῷ Ἰσραήλ ἐστι, καὶ κρίμα τῷ Θεῷ Ἰακώβ.
(Hoti prostagma tōi Israaʸl esti, kai krima tōi Theōi Yakōb.)

BrTr (PSA 80:5) For this is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob.

ULT For, it is a statute for Israel,
⇔ a judgment of the God of Jacob.

UST Do this because the God whom we Israelite people worship
⇔ has commanded us to do it.

BSB & MSB For this is a statute for Israel,
⇔ an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

OEB For this is a statute for Israel,
⇔ a ruling of the God of Jacob,

WEBBE & WMBB For it is a statute for Israel,
⇔ an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

NET For observing the festival is a requirement for Israel;
⇔ it is an ordinance given by the God of Jacob.

LSV For it [is] a statute to Israel,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

FBV for this is a rule for Israel, a regulation of the God of Jacob.

T4T Do that because that is a law for us Israeli people;
⇔ God commanded it for us descendants of Jacob.

LEB • because it is a statute for Israel,
• an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

BBE For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

Moff This is laid down for Israel,
⇔ a rule of Jacob’s God;

JPS (PSA 81:5) (81-6) He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when He went forth against the land of Egypt. The speech of one that I knew not did I hear:

ASV For it is a statute for Israel,
⇔ An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

DRA (PSA 80:5) For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.

YLT For a statute to Israel it [is], An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

Drby For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the [fn]God of Jacob;

81.4 Elohim

RV For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

SLT For it is a law to Israel, a judgment to the God of Jacob.

Wbstr For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

KJB-1769 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

KJB-1611 For this was a Statute for Israel: and a Law of the God of Iacob.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps For this was made a statute for Israel: and a lawe of the God of Iacob.
(For this was made a statute for Israel: and a law of the God of Yacob.)

Gnva For this is a statute for Israel, and a Law of the God of Iaakob.
(For this is a statute for Israel, and a Law of the God of Yacob.)

Cvdl For this is the vse in Israel, & a lawe of the God of Iacob.
(For this is the use in Israel, and a law of the God of Yacob.)

Wycl (PSA 80:5) For whi comaundement is in Israel; and doom is to God of Jacob.
(For why commandment is in Israel; and judgement is to God of Yacob.)

Luth (PSA 81:5) Denn solches ist eine Weise in Israel und ein Recht des Gottes Jakobs.
(Because such is a/one way/manner in Israel and a law/right the God’s Yakob’s.)

ClVg (PSA 80:5) quia præceptum in Israël est, et judicium Deo Jacob.[fn]
(because precept/rule in/into/on Israel it_is, and judgement to_God Yacob.)

80.5 Quia præceptum in Isræl est; et judicium, etc. ID. Ideo tuba canendum, quia lex data est Judæis per Moysen, et quia judex futurus est.

80.5 Because precept/rule in/into/on Israel it_is; and judgement, etc. ID. Therefore/For_that_reason tuba to_be_sung, because the_law data it_is To_the_Jews through Moses, and because the_judge to_be it_is.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

כִּ֤י חֹ֣ק לְ⁠יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל ה֑וּא

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when regulation for,Israel he/it ordinance of,the_God_of Yaakob )

The word translated as For indicates that what follows is a reason for what came before. Use a connector in your language that makes it clear that what follows is a reason for what came before. Alternate translation: [This is because it is a statute for Israel]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

חֹ֣ק לְ⁠יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל ה֑וּא מִ֝שְׁפָּ֗ט לֵ⁠אלֹהֵ֥י יַעֲקֹֽב

regulation (Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when regulation for,Israel he/it ordinance of,the_God_of Yaakob )

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the ideas of statute and judgment, you could express the same ideas in another way. Alternate translation: [it is something that God decreed, what the God of Jacob decided]

Parallel PSA 81:4