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A foul turn of phrase in Psalm 38
The following verses from Psalm 38 caught my attention this morning while reading the HCSB:
4 For my sins have flooded over my head;
they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.
5 My wounds are foul and festering
because of my foolishness.
Most translations I looked at had some variation of the more literal “my wounds fester [...]
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Seerveld: Psalm 51
Voicing God’s Psalms
Calvin Seerveld
William Eerdmans Publishing Company (2005)
ISBN 0-8028-2806-X
There has been quite a bit of discussion of Psalm 51 lately, especially on Better Bibles by Suzanne, David et al., so I thought I would add one more late voice to the chorus. A few days ago, I received my copy of Seerveld’s translation of some [...]
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Poetic bloodshed
Over at Better Bibles Blog, Suzanne continues to post on blood, sin and color in Psalm 51. Her most recent post concludes by looking at the choice of “bloodshed” versus the more abstract (and traditional) “bloodguiltiness” in verse 14. She approves of the NRSV for its use of the former; I mentioned the REB and [...]
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The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain…
In a twisted sort of way, one of my favorite Bible text annotations is the footnote that says, “Hb. obscure” or “The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.” Invariably this prompts a massive emptying of my bookshelf as I consult each Bible translation in turn, looking to see how they’ve handled this hard nugget of [...]
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Psalm 23: the coffee translation