Monday, May 17, 2021

Verse comparison, Psalm 68:19


This month I am reading Psalm 42-72 thirty days in a row. It's a LOT. But one thing I have noticed are how many variants there are in translating Psalm 68:19. There are two main camps--those who translate it as God loading us with benefits day by day...and those who translate it either as God bearing US up day by day OR God bearing our burdens day by day. I don't know which I find more comforting. 

Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. KJV
Blessed be the Lord,
Who daily loads us with benefits,
The God of our salvation! NKJV
Blessed be the Lord, who daily beareth our burden,
Even the God who is our salvation. ASV
Blessed be the Lord!
Day after day he bears our burdens;
God is our salvation. CSB
Blessed be the Lord!
Day after day he bears our burdens;
God is our salvation. ESV
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. NASB 77
Praised be the Lord, even the God of our salvation, which ladeth us daily with benefits. 1599 GEN
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden,
The God who is our salvation.  NASB95
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden,
The God who is our salvation. NASB2020
Blessed be the Lord. Daily he loads us with benefits,
the God of our salvation. Lexham English Bible
Blessed be the Lord.
Day by day he bears our burdens.
He is the God who saves us. Evangelical Heritage Version
What a glorious Lord! He who daily bears our burdens also gives us our salvation. Living Bible
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits,
    even the God who is our salvation. MEV
The Lord deserves praise.
Day after day he carries our burden,
the God who delivers us. New English Translation
The Lord deserves praise.
Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,
    who daily bears our burdens. NIV 2011
Praise the Lord; praise God our savior!
    For each day he carries us in his arms.  New Living Translation
Blessed be the Lord,
    who daily bears us up;
    God is our salvation. NRSV
Blessed be the Lord,
    who daily bears us up;
    God is our salvation. RSV


© Becky Laney of Operation Actually Read Bible

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