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• Psa 2:1-2
• Act 4:25,26
• Psa 2:1
• My 103:16
• My 200:4
• Psa 2:4
• Mis 126:30
• Psa 2:7
• Act 13:33
• Heb 1:5
• Heb 5:5

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• Psa 4:1 - KJV wording: HEAR - alternative translation: answer
• Psa 4:1 - KJV wording: RIGHTEOUSNESS - alternative translation: right
• Robert G. Bratcher and William D. Reyburn (A Handbook on Psalms, New York: UBS, 1991, page 42) note:

  The Hebrew word translated right (tsedeq) is a legal term and means defense or vindication against the charges brought by one's accuser.

• Psa 4:1 - KJV wording: ENLARGED ME - alternative translation: gave me room
• Psa 4:2 - KJV wording: LEASING - modern translation: falsehood
• Psa 4:4
• Eph 4:26
• Psa 4:6 - KJV wording: LIFT THOU UP THE LIGHT OF THY COUNTENANCE UPON US - alternative translation: Let the light of your face shine upon us {TrV}
• Psa 4:6
• Num 6:25
• Psa 4:7 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain

• Psa 5:4 - KJV wording: NEITHER SHALL EVIL DWELL WITH THEE - alternative translation: you allow no evil in your presence {TEV} (or: evil cannot be a guest of yours OR evil cannot sojourn with you)
• Psa 5:6 - KJV wording: BLOODY - alternative translation: blood-thirsty
• Psa 5:6 - KJV wording: LEASING - alternative translation: lies
• Psa 5:8 - because of mine enemies
• Psa 27:11
• Psa 69:18
• Psa 5:9
• Rom 3:13
• Psa 5:10 - KJV wording: DESTROY - alternative translation: hold guilty

• Psa 6:5
• Psa 30:10
• Psa 88:11
• Psa 115:17,18
• Isa 38:18

• Psa 7:10
• Mis 258:16
• Psa 7:16 - KJV wording: PATE - modern translation: crown

• Psa 8:4 - man or human beings <0582, Hebrew: enosh>
• The English words man and men in the KJV were translated from the Hebrew words
• ish <0376> (most commonly)
• Genesis 2:23, 24; 3:6, 16; 4:1, 23; and elsewhere
• enosh <0582> (second most commonly)
• Genesis 6:4; 12:20; 13:13; and elsewhere
• adam <0120> (third most commonly)
• Genesis 1:26,27
• Genesis 2:5, 7, 8, 15, 16, 18, 22, 25, 3:12, 22, 24; 5:1, and elsewhere
• enash, ben, ben adam, baal, gibbor, gebar, geber, zakar, nephesh, and echad (occasionally)
• Genesis 20:3 and elsewhere
• Psa 8:4-6
• Heb 2:6-8
• Psa 8:5 - KJV wording: angels <0430, Hebrew: Elohim> - corrected translation: God <0430, Hebrew: Elohim>
• Psa 8:6
• 1Co 15:27
• S&H 200:9

• Psa 9:17 - KJV wording: HELL, Hebrew: Sheol

• Psa 10:7
• Rom 3:14
• Psa 10:8 - KJV wording: PRIVILY - modern translation: secretly

• Psa 11:1
• No 7:12
• Psa 11:2 - KJV wording: PRIVILY - modern translation: secretly

• Psa 12:2 - KJV wording: VANITY - modern translation: falsehood

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• Psa 14:1-3
• Rom 3:10-12
• Psa 14:1
• '01 18:24
• Mis 30:24
• Mis 112:30
• My 227:29
• Psa 14:2
• S&H 18:9
• S&H 409:22
• S&H 444:29

• Psa 15:1
• My 33:15
• My 228:23
• Psa 15:2
• My 33:17
• My 228:23
• Psa 15:3
• My 33:19
• Psa 15:4
• My 33:22
• Psa 15:5
• My 33:25

• Psa 16:5
• Num 18:20
• Psa 73:26
• Lam 3:24
• Psa 16:8
• Act 2:25
• Psa 16:9
• Act 2:26
• Psa 16:10
• Psa 49:9
• Act 2:27,31
• Act 13:35
• Psa 16:10 - KJV wording: HELL, Hebrew: Sheol
• Psa 16:11
• Act 2:28

• Psa 17:6 - KJV wording: HEAR - alternative translation: answer
• Psa 17:13 - KJV wording: DISAPPOINT: confront
• Psa 17:15 - KJV: I will behold thy face in righteousness - NRSV: I will behold your face in righteousness - TEV: I will see you, because I have done no wrong - NAB: I am just - let me see your face - NJB: I in my uprightness will see your face
• For additional references, browse "See God" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/s.htm#see-god
• Psa 17:15 - KJV: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness - NRSV:  when I awake I shall be satisfied, beholding your likeness - TEV: when I awake, your presence will fill me with joy - NAB: when I awake, let me be filled with your presence - NJB: when I awake I shall be filled with the vision of you
• For additional references, browse "Awake with thy likeness" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/a.htm.
• Psa 17:15 - KJV & NRSV: likeness <08544> - literal translation: form (or: representation or similitude)
• The Hebrew is temunah. Temunah is translated in the KJV as follows:
• likeness: Exo 20:4; Deu 4:23,25; Deu 5:8; Psa 17:15
• similitude: Num 12:8, Deu 4:12-16
• image: Job 4:16
• Robert G. Bratcher and William D. Reyburn (A Handbook on Psalms, New York: United Bible Societies, 1991, page 159) comment regarding "likeness" or "form"or "presence:"

  Thy form recalls Num 12:8, where Yahweh [Jehovah] states that Moses has spoken to him face to face and has seen his "form." It is doubtful the psalmist thought of Yahweh as having a material body; so TEV "your presence"; NEB "a vision of thee"; NJV "the vision of You." The Septuagint translated "and I shall be filled at the appearance of your glory." TEV's "your presence" may need to be rendered "where you are." In some languages line 15b may be rendered idiomatically as "When I awake, my heart will sit cool because I am in the place where you are" or, nonfiguratively, "When I awake, I will be happy because I am near you."

• Psa 18:1 - KJV wording: I WILL LOVE THEE - alternative translation: I love you
• Psa 18:4 - KJV wording: SORROWS - alternative translation: cords
• Psa 18:5 - KJV wording: HELL, Hebrew - alternative translation: Sheol
• Psa 18:5 - KJV wording: PREVENTED - alternative translation: came upon
• Psa 18:5 - KJV wording: SORROWS - alternative translation: cords
• Psa 18:15 - KJV wording: DISCOVERED - alternative translation: uncovered
• Psa 18:18 - KJV wording: PREVENTED - alternative translation: came upon
• Psa 18:26 - KJV wording: FROWARD - alternative translation: perverse
• Psa 18:49
• Rom 15:9

• Psa 19:1 - KJV wording: firmament <07549> - modern translation: skies
• The Hebrew word <07549> used here is virtually synonymous with the Hebrew word <08064> translated as "heavens" in the first part of this verse.
• Psa 19:1 - KJV wording: sheweth <05046> - modern translation: proclaims
• In some editions of the KJV, this word sheweth is spelled "showeth."
• Bratcher and Reyburn (A Handbook on Psalms, New York: United Bible Societies, 1991, page 189) comments:

  The verb "to tell" (are telling) and its parallel proclaims poetically attribute human functions to the created universe, which makes known to all humankind God's greatness.

• Psa 19:1
• Rom 1:19,20
• Psa 19:2 - KJV wording: UTTERETH <05042> - modern translation: pours forth
• Psa 19:2 - KJV wording: SHEWETH <02331> - modern translation: makes known (or: declares or tells)
• Though the KJV English word "sheweth" is used in both Psa 19:1 and Psa 19:2, two different Hebrew words are used in the original text of Psalms.
• In some editions of the KJV, this word sheweth is spelled "showeth."
• Psa 19:3 - KJV wording: THERE IS NO SPEECH NOR LANGUAGE, WHERE THEIR VOICE IS NOT HEARD - corrected translation: there is no speech, there are no words; their voice is not heard
• "their" refers to the firmament/heavens, two verses earlier in Psa 19:1.
• Psa 19:3
• Ret 61:18
• Psa 19:4 - KJV wording: THEIR LINE - corrected wording: their message
• Robert Bratcher and William Reyburn provide the following textual comments in their A Handbook on Psalms (New York: United Bible Societies, 1991, page 190):

  In line a of verse 4 the Hebrew text has "their line"; following ancient versions, many commentaries and translations understand the text to say "their voice." Dahood and HOTTP, however, maintain that the Hebrew word means "their call." NEB interprets "line" as the string of a musical instrument and tanslates "their music" (so TOB). Since the report is soundless, something like "message, report" is better than voice (some may have "their testimony").

• Psa 19:4
• Rom 10:18
• Psa 19:6 - KJV wording: HIS GOING FORTH - corrected translation: its rising
• Psa 19:7
• S&H 342:4
• Psa 19:8 - KJV wording: STATUTES - modern translation: precepts
• Psa 19:8 - KJV wording: COMMANDMENT - modern translation: testimony
• Psa 19:8
• S&H 266:2
• Psa 19:9 - KJV wording: JUDGMENTS - modern translation: ordinances
• Psa 19:14 - KJV wording: STRENGTH - modern translation: rock

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• Psa 22:1
• Mat 27:46
• Mar 15:34
• Psa 22:1 - KJV wording: ROARING - modern translation: groaning
• Psa 22:17 - KJV wording: TELL - modern translation: count
• Psa 22:18
• Mat 27:35
• Joh 19:24
• S&H 242:21
• Mis 302:1
• Psa 22:20 - KJV wording: DARLING - modern translation: dear life
• Psa 22:21 - KJV wording: UNICORN(S) - modern translation: wild ox(en)
• Psa 22:22
• Heb 2:12

• Psa 23:1
• Gen 48,15
• Isa 40:11
• Joh 10:11-30
• S&H 578:5
• Psa 23:2
• Eze 34:13,14
• Rev 7:17
• S&H 514:13
• S&H 578:5
• Mis 206:32
• Mis 322:15
• My 162:26
• Psa 23:3
• S&H 578:5
• Un 30:11
• Psa 23:4
• Psa 46:3
• S&H 578:5
• S&H 596:21
• Psa 23:5
• Psa 36:9
• S&H 578:5
• Pan 15:6
• Psa 23:6
• Psa 84:5
• S&H 578:5

• Psa 24:1
• 1Co 10:26
• Psa 24:1-6
• My 33:28-13
• Psa 24:3- 6
• Psa 15
• My 34:1-9
• Psa 24:4 - KJV wording: VANITY - alternative translation: falsehood
• Psa 24:9,10
• My 34:10-13

• Psa 25:5 - KJV wording: ON THEE DO I WAIT ALL THE DAY - alternative translation: I have great confidence in you all day long
• Psa 25:13
• 1Sa 2:8
• Psa 25:13
• Psa 37:9,11,22
• Mat 5:5

• Psa 26:8
• Psa 27:4
• Psa 122:1,2
• Psa 26:9 - KJV wording: BLOODY - alternative translation: blood-thirsty

• Psa 27:1
• Psa 56:5
• Mic 7:8
• Psa 27:1,3 - fear no one - never be afraid
• To read additional texts on "FEAR NOT," browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/fear-not.htm.
• Psa 27:13
• Isa 38:11

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• Psa 29:2
• S&H 135:12
• Ret 32:3
• My 41:32
• Psa 29:6 - KJV wording: UNICORN(S) - modern translation: wild ox(en)
• Psa 29:9 - KJV wording: DISCOVER(ED)(ETH)(ING) - modern translation: strippeth

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• Psa 31:4 - KJV wording: STRENGTH - alternative translation: stronghold
• Psa 31:5
• Luk 23:46
• Psa 31:9 - KJV wording: BELLY - alternative translation: body
• Psa 31:19 - KJV wording: GREAT - alternative translation: abundant

• Psa 32:2 - NO GUILE
• Joh 1:47
• 1Pe 2:1,2
• Rev 14:5
• Psa 32:8 - KJV wording: REST - modern translation: resting-place

• Psa 33:1 - KJV wording: COMELY - alternative translation: fitting (or: appropriate or right)
• Psa 33:1 - KJV wording: UPRIGHT - alternative translation: righteous
• Psa 33:9
• Mis 23:7
• Psa 33:12
• Deu 33:29
• Psa 33:20 - KJV wording: Our soul <05315> - alternative translation: We
• The Hebrew word translatable as "soul" is nephesh <05315>. To read a commentary on the meaning and use of nephesh, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/soul.htm.

• Psa 34:1 - Thank/praise the Lord
• To further explore this, browse "Hallowed be your name / May your holy name be honored" at http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/prayer1.htm.
• Psa 34:8 - KJV wording: trusteth in him - alternative translation: takes refuge in him
• Psa 34:12-16
• 1Pe 3:10-12
• Psa 34:13
• Psa 34:12-16
• Psa 34:14
• Psa 34:12-16
• Psa 34:15
• Psa 34:12-16
• Psa 34:16
• Psa 34:12-16
• Psa 34:21 - KJV wording: DESOLATE - alternative translation: condemned
• Psa 34:22 - KJV wording: DESOLATE - alternative translation: condemned

• Psa 35:9 - KJV wording: my soul <05315> - some modern translations (NAB, REB, TEV): I
• The Hebrew word translatable as "soul" is nephesh. To read a commentary on the meaning and use of nephesh, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/soul.htm.
• Psa 35:12 - KJV wording: SPOILING - modern translation: bereaving
• Psa 35:17 - KJV wording: DARLING - modern translation: dear life
• Psa 35:19
• Joh 15:25

• Psa 36:7
• Psa 17:8
• Psa 36:8
• Mis 127:7
• [The entire dedicatory sermon in Pul 1:1 to Pul 11:8 is based upon this verse.]
• Pul 1:1
• Pul 2:9-Pul 3:18
• Pul 4:20
• Pul 7:24
• Pul 9:16-21
• My 18:4
• Psa 36:9
• Pro 13:14
• Pro 14:27
• Pro 16:22
• S&H 190:21-31
• S&H 510:9

• Psa 37:1
• My 135:28
• Psa 37:3
• My 170:20
• Psa 37:4
• Psa 20:5
• My 170:21
• Psa 37:5
• Mis 157:22
• Mis 268:32
• My 170:23
• Psa 37:6
• Mic 7:9
• Mis 157:23
• '01 135:2
• My 170:24
• Psa 37:7
• Un 6:27
• Psa 37:11
• S&H 516:14
• Mis 145:13
• Psa 37:14 - KJV wording: CONVERSATION - alternative translation: in the way
• Psa 37:23 - omit from KJV wording: good - (based on the original Hebrew text)
• Psa 37:24
• Pro 24:16
• Psa 37:25
• My 273:10
• Psa 37:30 - KJV wording: JUDGMENT - alternative translation: justice
• Psa 37:31 - KJV wording: SLIDE - alternative translation: slip
• Psa 37:35
• S&H 5:19
• Psa 37:37 - KJV wording: perfect <08535> - modern translation: complete, wholesome, morally innocent, or having integrity (The Hebrew word is tam. Tam is translated in the KJV as follows:)
• plain
• Gen 25:27
• perfect
• Job 1:1,8
• Job 8:20
• Job 9:20-22
• Psa 37:37
• Psa 64:4
• upright
• Pro 29:10
• undefiled
• Son 5:2
• Son 6:9
• To explore additional references in the Bible and other writings, browse "PERFECT" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/p.htm.
• To read a Bible dictionary explanation of "perfect/perfection," browse http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/perfect.htm.
• Psa 37:37 - KJV wording: end <0319> - modern translation: result
• Psa 37:37
• Gen 39:7-9
• Ret 42:14

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• Psa 40:1
• Un 6:27
• Un 29:24
• Psa 40:6-8
• Heb 10:5-7

• Psa 41:6 - KJV wording: VANITY - alternative translation: falsehood
• Psa 41:9 - quoted in: Joh 13:18

• Psa 42:2 - KJV wording: my soul <05315> - modern translation: I
• The Hebrew word translatable as "soul" is nephesh. To read a commentary on the meaning and use of nephesh, browse of click on http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/soul.htm.
• Psa 42:2 - living God
• To explore additional references, browse "LIVING GOD" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/l.htm.
• Psa 42:3 - KJV wording: MEAT - modern translation: food
• Psa 42:11 - KJV wording: CAST DOWN <07817> - modern translation: sad
• Psa 42:11 - KJV wording: my soul <05315> - modern translation: me
• The Hebrew word translatable as "soul" is nephesh. To read a commentary on the meaning and use of nephesh, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/soul.htm.
• Psa 42:11 - KJV wording: DISQUIETED <01993> - modern translation: troubled
• Psa 42:11 - KJV wording: HEALTH <03444> - modern translation: salvation (or: welfare, prosperity, deliverance, OR victory)
• Psa 42:11 - KJV wording: OF MY COUNTENANCE <06440> - modern translation: of me {Hebrew literally: of my face}
• Psa 42:11 - thus - KJV wording: HEALTH <03444> OF MY COUNTENANCE <06440> - modern translation: my salvation (or: my welfare, my prosperity, my deliverance, OR my victory)
• Psa 42:11
• S&H 362 (in scriptural introduction to chapter)
• Pan 4:21

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• Psa 44:11 - KJV wording: MEAT - alternative translation: food
• Psa 44:19 - KJV wording: DRAGONS - modern translation: jackals

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• Psa 46:1
• S&H 13:1
• S&H 202:27
• S&H 444:11
• Un 2:4
• My 162:3
• Psa 46:5
• Pul 83:20
• Psa 46:6
• S&H 97:26
• Psa 46:10 - KJV wording: HEATHEN - alternative translation: nations
• Psa 46:10
• My 223:26-225:5 [The words from Psa 46:10, "Be still and know that I am God," provide the scriptural basis for the entire article, "A Word to the Wise."]
• My 275:3

• Psa 46:10 - KJV & NRSV wording: Be still... - TEV wording: Stop fighting... - Old Testament Library: Psalms wording: Leave off (from waging war)... - all versions: ...and know that I am God

• Mitchell Dahood (The Anchor Bible: Psalms 1-50, (New York: Doubleday, 1966, page 282) comments:

  Be still. Namely, do nothing; do not enter into military alliances with other nations, since Yahweh controls history. This is the military policy advocated by Isa. xxx 15, "By sitting still and keeping quiet will you be saved."

• Robert G. Bratcher and William D. Reyburn (A Handbook on Psalms, New York: United Bible Societies, 1991, page 435) comment:

  In verse 10 God himself speaks to the nations (Anderson thinks the words are addressed to the people of Israel): "Stop fighting" is what he commands. The traditional Be still is widely misunderstood as a command to be reverent (in church) and meditate on God's blessings. The Hebrew verb means to cease, be inactive. APCL has "Surrender!"; BJ, FRCL "Stop"; NAB, NJV "Desist!"; TOB "Drop your weapons!"; GECL "Make peace." Know is used in the sense of acknowledge, recognize, admit, confess. Know that I am God can sometimes be translated "learn that I am God" or "see that I am God." I am exalted in verse 10b,c means "I rule" (FRCL), "I am above" (SPCL), "I dominate" (NJV). Some take it as a future: "I will be exalted" (NIV). The expression I am exalted among the nations must be shifted to an active construction in many languages; for example, "The nations praise me, the people of the world say that I am great."

• A.A. Anderson (New Century Bible: Psalms, Volumes 1 and 2, London: Oliphants, 1972, page 360) comments:

  Be still: this may addressed to the nations who are exhorted to abandon their futile hostilities against God (2:10), or, more likely, it is a command directed to the people of God who are counselled to reject all foreeign alliances and to depend entirely upon Yahweh (cf. Isa 30:15).

  I am exalted: i.e. Yahweh is 'the high and lofty one' (Isa 57:15; cf. also Isa. 6:1, 52:13), and he will be experienced as such by all the peoples of the earth.

• Artur Weiser (The Old Testament Library: The Psalms, Philadelphia: Westminster, 1962, page 373) comments:

  [10] God himself appears and speaks his Word to the nations. That Word is a command; it is even something more: as the Word of God it carries with it the power and the guarantee of its fulfilment. 'Leave off (from waging war) and know that I am God'; it is the aim of the kingdom of peace that the world may know God and submit to him. As the Lord of the world God 'rises' above the nations and the earth in order that he may be the One who alone is exalted above the whole world. The theophany ('arum), which is experienced by the festival congregation as the revelation of God when the celebration has reached its climax, signifies at the same time the culminating point and ultimate goal of his redemptive work for the whole world. What we are here presented with is not the blissful dream of eternal peace, dreamt by human beings belonging to an age that has got tired of wars and hoping for earthly happiness or yearning for rest and peace, but the strong faith which has made God's cause wholly its own and, because it has experienced the divine love, knows that the world will find its consummation in the peace of God. The ultimate goal of everything which comes to pass is not the fulfilment of human desires but the revelation and self-glorification of God. That his kingdom come and that his will be done is at the motive and the goal of the faith pictured in this psalm.

• Psa 47:7 - KJV wording: with understanding<07919, Hebrew: maskil> - modern translation: with an insightful psalm/song

• Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Volume II (edited by Harris, Archer, and Waltke, Chicago: Moody Press, 1980, pages 877-878, explains:

maskil. The Hiphil participle used as a noun appears in the titles of Pss 32, 42, 44, 45, 52-55, 74, 78, 88, 89, 142. In addition, Ps 47:7 [H 8] emphasizes that one is to sing praises in accordance with a maskil psalm. Some have considered a maskil to be a didactic poem which causes consideration or gives insight. Others have suggested it to be an artistic song having insight. More probably this can be considered a contemplative poem, with elements of the other two... Except for its first occurence (Ps 32) maskil is always linked with an individual or the Sons of Korah. David is included in Ps 52-55 and 142, Asaph in 74 and 78 and Heman in 88 and 89. The root, skl, denotes "insight" or "wisdom," so these psalms may be noted for their special instruction or their musical difficulty.

• Psa 48:1
• Psa 46:5,6
• S&H 558:-1 (introductory scripture to the chapter on "The Apocalypse")
• Psa 48:2
• Lam 2:15
• Mat 5:35
• S&H 575:22

• Psa 49:9
• Psa 16:10
• Act 2:27,31
• Act 13:35
• Psa 49:19
• Ret 64:15
• Psa 49:20
• Ret 64:16

• Psa 50:10
• S&H 514:16
• Psa 50:23 - KJV wording: conversation - correct translation: in the way
  • In the 20 instances throughout the Bible where the KJV uses the word "conversation," the original Hebrew and Greek words have nothing to do with verbal communication. In all but Phi 1:27 and 3:20, the correct biblical translation is "behavior" or "way of life." In Phi 1:27 and 3:20 the Greek word translated as "conversation" in the KJV is politeuma, which means "commonwealth," "citizenship," "enfranchisement," or "community."

• Psa 51:1
• Luk 18:13
• Psa 51:2 - KJV wording: THROUGHLY - alternative translation: thoroughly (or: completely)
• Psa 51:3
• Psa 32:5
• Psa 51:5
• KJV wording:
• "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me."
• Corrected wording that appears in other Bible versions owned and used by Mary Baker Eddy
• ASV: "Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me."
• The same corrected wording that appears in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy
• S&H: "conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity" (S&H 476:15-17)
• [This includes a paraphrase of the American Standard Version [ASV] translation of Psa 51:5. See also S&H 540:28-30.]
• For some of Mary Baker Eddy's other quotes and paraphrases from non-KJV translations of the Bible, see Section 3 of http://www.bibletexts.com/bl-ver.htm.
• Psa 51:5
• S&H 476:15-17
• S&H 540:29
• Psa 51:10 - clean heart
• To explore additional references, browse "Pure in heart" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/p.htm#pure-in-heart.
• Psa 51:10 - KJV wording: right - alternative translation: steadfast {or: established rightly}
• Psa 51:10
• Mat 5:8
• Eze 36:26,27
• Psa 51:12 - KJV wording: with thy free spirit - alternative translation: with a willing spirit {or: with a noble spirit}
• Psa 51:16
• Psa 40:7
• Psa 51:17
• Psa 34:19

• Psa 52:1 - KJV wording: the goodness of God endureth continually - NRSV wording: ...against the godly? All day long... - NAB wording: ... scandalous liar? All day long...

• Robert G. Bratcher and WIlliam D. Reyburn (A Handbook on Psalms, New York: United Bible Societies, 1991, p. 479) comment:

...The Masoretic Text is literally "the constant love of God (is) all day," which TEV has translated "God's faithfulness is eternal" (similarly Weiser; TOB, NJV, AT, GECL, SPCL). But this statement seems inappropriate in the context, and other translations are proposed. There are several ways in which the text has been changed:

• (1) following in part the Syriac, instead of the Masoretic Text "constant love of God," read "against the godly," and join the phrase "all the day" with what follows in verse 3 (so Oesterley; RSV, FRCL, NEB, ZUR also has "against the godly" but keeps "all the day" with this line instead of joining it to the next);
• (2) following in part the Septuagint, take the Hebrew word chesed (see 5.7) in its Aramaic sense of "infamy" and translate "hero of infamy," and join "all the day" with what follows in verse 3 (BJ, NJB, FRCL, NAB);

• (3) delete "the constant love of God" as a later gloss (Briggs).

The Masoretic Text can be translated, but the meaning it provides does not seem as appropriate to the context as that supplied by the proposed changes in the Hebrew text.

• A.A. Anderson (New Century Bible: The Book of Psalms, Volume 1, Attic Press, Greenwood, SC: 1972, page 404) comments:

against the godly: so RSV following S [Syriac] and reading 'el hasid; M.T. [Masoretic Text] has 'the mercy of God' (RV). If M.T. has preserved the original text, we could render: 'Why do you brag about evil, O man of (ruthless) might? (Don't you see that) the Covenant loyalty of God (lasts) continually?' C. Schedl (BZ, N.F, v (1961), pp. 259f.) links the Hebrew hsd with its Syriac cognate which comes from 'to revile, scorn', and M.T. could be rendered '(why do you ) revile God all day long?', regarding hsd as a pi'el infinitive absolute used instead of a finite verb (cf. GK 113y).

• Translations based upon the Hebrew Masoretic Text:
  • KJV - 1 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness <02617> of God <0410> endureth continually <3605 + 3117>. 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • TEV - "God's Judgment and Grace" - 1 Why do you boast, great man, of your evil? God's faithfulness is eternal. 2 You make plans to ruin others; your tongue is like a sharp razor. You are always inventing lies. 3 You love evil more than good and falsehood more than truth. 4 You love to hurt people with your words, you liar!
• Translations based upon the Greek Septuagint, which is supported by Hebrew texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran.
• NAB - 1 Why do you glory in evil, you scandalous liar? All day long 4 you plot destruction; your tongue is like a sharpened razor, you skillful deceiver.
• NJB - 1 Why take pride in being wicked, you champion in villainy, all day long 2 plotting crime? Your tongue is razor-sharp, you artist in perfidy.
• Septuagint (English translation) - 1 Why do you <5100>, O mighty man <1415>, boast <2744> of sin <458> in <1722> your wicked depravity <2549>? All <3650> the <3588> day <2250> 2 thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.

• Septuagint (Greek) - 1 Ti <5100> egkaucha <2744> en <1722> kakia <2549> ho <3588> dunatos <1415>, anomian <458> holen <3650> ten <3588> hemeran <2250>; 2 adikian elogisato he glossa sou hosei xuron ekonemenon epoiesas dolon.

• Translations based upon the Syriac Peshitta:
• NIV - 1 Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God? 2 Your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor, you who practice deceit.
• NRSV - 1 Why do you boast, O mighty one, of mischief done against the godly? All day long 2 you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
• Peshitta (English translation) - 1 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? Your tongue devises injustices against the innocent every day. 2 It is like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. (George M Lamsa's translation from the Syriac Peshitta, Philadelphia, AJ Holman, 1957)
• REB - 1 You mighty man, why do you boast all the day of your infamy against God's loyal servant? 2 you plan destruction; your slanderous tongue is sharp as a razor.

• Psa 53:1
• '01 18:24
• Mis 30:24
• Mis 112:30
• Mis 212:2

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• Psa 55:13 - KJV wording: GUIDE - modern translation: companion
• Psa 55:15 - KJV wording: HELL, Hebrew: Sheol
• Psa 55:15 - KJV wording: QUICK - modern translation: alive

• Psa 56:4
• Psa 27:1
• Psa 118:6
• Isa 12:2
• Isa 51:12
• Mat 10:28
• Psa 56:9
• My 151:12

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• Psa 59:4 - KJV wording: TO HELP ME, Hebrew: meet
• Psa 59:15 - KJV wording: GRUDGE - modern translation: tarry all night
• Psa 59:15 - KJV wording: MEAT - modern translation: food

• Psa 60:2 - KJV wording: SCATTERED - modern translation: broken
• Psa 60:6 - KJV wording: METE - modern translation: measure

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• Psa 62:4 - KJV wording: CONSULT - alternative translation: counsel
• Psa 62:8 - KJV wording: CORN - alternative translation: grain

• Psa 63:1 - KJV wording: early - modern translation: earnestly
• Psa 63:2 - KJV wording: TO SEE THY POWER AND THY GLORY, SO AS I HAVE SEEN THEE IN THE SANCTUARY - alternative translation: So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, to behold your power and glory

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• Psa 65:4
• Psa 63:3,4
• Psa 84:2-5
• Deu 4:7
• Psa 65:9 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Psa 65:13 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain

• Psa 66:10 - purified by fire
• Pro 17:3
• S&H 565:13-22
• Mis 124:32-6
• Mis 151:6-9
• Mis 205:7-10
• Ret 94:9-14
• '00 8:20-25
• Psa 66:18
• Pro 28:9

• Psa 67:1
• Num 6:24,25
• Psa 67:2
• My 274:20-28

• Psa 68:6 - solitary
• S&H 259:1
• S&H 266:6
• Psa 68:11
• Mis 153:11
• Psa 68:18
• My 110:26

• Psa 69:1 - KJV wording: soul - modern translation: neck
  • To explore an explanation of why the Hebrew word can be translated as neck, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/soul.htm#nepes.
• Psa 69:16 - tender mercies
• Psa 103:2-4
• Mis 391:1-22
• Chr 53:5-12
• Psa 69:21 - KJV wording: MEAT - modern translation: food

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• Psa 71:1 - KJV wording: do I put my trust - alternative translation: I have taken refuge
• Psa 71:1 - KJV wording: put to confusion - alternative translation: put to shame (or: be defeated)
• Psa 71:1 - do I
  • Psa 22:5; 25:2,3; 31:1-3; 125:1; 146:5
  • 2Ki 18:5
  • 1Ch 5:20
  • Rom 9:33
  • 1Pe 2:6
• Psa 71:1 - let me
• Isa 45:17
• Jer 17:18
• Psa 71:3
• Psa 71:1 - my strong habitation (Heb. to me for a rock of habitation)
• Psa 31:2,3; 91:1,2
• Pr 18:10
• Isa 33:16
• Psa 71:1 - thou hast
• Psa 44:4; 68:28; 91:11,12
• Eze 9:6
• Rev 7:2,3
• Psa 71:1 - my rock
• Psa 18:2; 144:2
  
• Psa 71:9 - KJV wording: is very high - alternative translation: reaches to the skies (or: reaches high heavens)
• Psa 71:16
  • Ret 15:8
• Psa 71:17
  • Ret 15:9
• Psa 71:21 - KJV wording: GREATNESS - alternative translation: honor (or: prosperity, prestige, or power)
• Psa 71:21 - KJV wording: COMFORT ME ON EVERY SIDE - alternative translation: comfort me again

• Psa 72:16 - KJV wording: CORN - alternative translation: grain
• Psa 72:17
• Mis 192:15
• Psa 72:18-19
• Psa 41:14

• Psa 73:4 - KJV wording: BANDS - modern translation: pangs
• Psa 73:8 - KJV wording: ARE CORRUPT - modern translation: scoff
• Psa 73:10 - KJV wording: WRUNG OUT TO - modern translation: drained by
• Psa 73:13
• Mis 153:21
• Psa 73:19
• Ret 72:9
• Psa 73:25
• Mis 151:13-21
• Psa 73:26
• Psa 16:5

• Psa 74:14 - KJV wording: MEAT - alternative translation: food
• Psa 74:16
• Psa 104:19

• Psa 75:1
• Isa 46:13

• Psa 76:10
• '02 1:12
• Mis 41:6
• My 111:2
• My 151:10

• Psa 77:8 - KJV wording: clean - modern translation: completely
• Psa 77:13
• Mis 124:12

• Psa 78:18 - KJV wording: MEAT - alternative translation: food
• Psa 78:19
• No 9:20
• S&H 135:19
• Psa 78:24 - KJV wording: CORN - modern translation: grain
• Psa 78:25 - KJV wording: MEAT - modern translation: food
• Psa 78:30 - KJV wording: MEAT - modern translation: food
• Psa 78:34 - KJV wording: EARLY - modern translation: earnestly
• Psa 78:40
• Mis 325:23

• Psa 79:2 - KJV wording: MEAT - modern translation: food

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• Psa 81:7
• Mis 211:13

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• Psa 83:3 - KJV wording: CONSULTED - modern translation: counseled
• Psa 83:5 - KJV wording: CONSULTED - modern translation: counseled

• Psa 84:2 - KJV & NRSV wording: my soul <05315> - TEV wording: I
• The Hebrew word translatable as "soul" is nephesh. To read a commentary on the meaning and use of nephesh, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/soul.htm. The contents of this article includes:
• Soul defined from its Hebrew word nephesh
• Two accounts of the creation of man/woman -- man/woman as originating from the dust/earth (Gen 2:7) versus man/woman as the image of God (Gen 1:26,27)
• Two types of man/woman -- earthly, physical man/woman of the dust versus spiritual, heavenly man/woman (1Co 15:45-47)
• Psa 84:2
• Psa 42:3
• Psa 84:4
• Psa 65:5

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• Psa 86:2 - KJV wording: my soul <05315> - modern translation: me
• The Hebrew word translatable as "soul" is nephesh. To read a commentary on the meaning and use of nephesh, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/soul.htm. The contents of this article includes:
• Soul defined from its Hebrew word nephesh
• Two accounts of the creation of man/woman -- man/woman as originating from the dust/earth (Gen 2:7) versus man/woman as the image of God (Gen 1:26,27)
• Two types of man/woman -- earthly, physical man/woman of the dust versus spiritual, heavenly man/woman (1Co 15:45-47)
• Psa 86:8
• Exo 15:11
• Psa 135:5
• Psa 86:13 - KJV wording: HELL, Hebrew: Sheol

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• Psa 88:3 - KJV wording: THE GRAVE, Hebrew: Sheol
• Psa 88:13 - KJV wording: PREVENT - alternative translation: come before

• Psa 89:15 - KJV wording: joyful sound - alternative translation: festal shout

• On this verse A.A. Anderson (Psalms, Volume 2 of 2, New Century Bible Commentary, London: Oliphants, 1972, page 638) comments,

The Hebrew teruah ('festal shout') is the noise of shouting, or the noise created by the musical instruments... In this context teruah is the response of the people; they know not only what to shout... but they have also experienced the significance of the acclamation. They praise Yahweh [Jehovah, the Lord], not simply because it is the right thing to do, but because they are overwhelmed by his goodness and majesty."

• Robert G. Bratcher and William D. Reyburn (A Handbook on Psalms, New York: United Bible Societies, 1991, page 776.) comment:

In verse 15a we are not sure exactly how the festal shout was expressed in Temple worship, but it certainly involved praise. The same term is used for the shout of the Israelites when the walls of Jericho fell, so it may have implied victory (Josh 6.20). It seems best to express the function of the words 'know the festal shout' as 'know how to sing praises to you,' 'know how to praise you with song.'

• Psa 89:48 - KJV wording: THE GRAVE, Hebrew: Sheol
• Psa 89:50,51
• S&H 201:-1

• Psa 90:2 - omit KJV wording: ever - (based on the original text of Psalms)
• Psa 90:2 - KJV wording: Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, - corrected wording: Before the mountains were brought forth or thou hadst formed the earth and the world,
• Psa 90:9
• Ret 21:16
• Psa 90:16
• Isa 5:12
• Psa 90:17 - KJV wording: beauty - alternative translation: favor

• Psa 91:1
• Un 57:7
• My 107:23
• My 188:10
• My 244:15
• Psa 91:4
• Mis 263:7
• Psa 91:6
• S&H 56:16
• Psa 91:9
• Mis 229:16
• Psa 91:10
• Mis 229:18
• Psa 91:11-12
• Mat 4:6
• Psa 91:11
• Mis 306:29

• Psa 92:4
• Mis 248:7
• Psa 92:5
• Psa 104:24
• Isa 55:9
• Psa 92:10 - KJV wording: UNICORN - alternative translation: wild ox

• Psa 93:2
• S&H 255:-1
• Psa 93:4
• S&H 505:18

• Psa 94:17 - KJV wording: ALMOST - alternative translation: soon
• Psa 94:19 - KJV wording: my soul <05315> - alternative translation: me
• The Hebrew word translatable as "soul" is nephesh <05315>. To read a commentary on the meaning and use of nephesh, browse of click on http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/soul.htm.

• Psa 95:3
• Exo 15:11
• Psa 95:7
• Psa 100:3
• Joh 10:27,28
• Psa 95:8 - KJV wording: IN THE PROVOCATION - alternative translation: vat Meribah
• Psa 95:8 - KJV wording: TEMPTATION - alternative translation: Massah

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• Psa 97:1
• Mis 277:22-28

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• Psa 99:8 - KJV wording: INVENTIONS - modern translation: doings

• Psa 100:3 - KJV wording: and not we ourselves - correct translation: and his we are
• Psa 100:3
• Psa 95:7
• Mis 286:26

• Psa 101:4 - KJV wording: FROWARD - alternative translation: perverse

• Psa 102:11
• Ret 21:16
• Psa 102:26
• S&H 15:24

• Psa 103:1 - soul <05315>
• The Hebrew word translatable as "soul" is nephesh. To read a commentary on the meaning and use of nephesh, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/soul.htm. The contents of this article includes:
• Soul defined from its Hebrew word nephesh
• Two accounts of the creation of man/woman -- man/woman as originating from the dust/earth (Gen 2:7) versus man/woman as the image of God (Gen 1:26,27)
• Two types of man/woman -- earthly, physical man/woman of the dust versus spiritual, heavenly man/woman (1Co 15:45-47)
• Psa 103:3 - heals all your diseases
• To explore additional references, browse "CHRISTIAN HEALING" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/christianhealing.htm.
• Psa 103:4
• My 13:16
• Psa 103:5 - KJV wording: mouth - corrected wording: life
• Robert Bratcher and William Reyburn provide the following textual comments in their A Handbook on Psalms (New York: United Bible Societies, 1991, page 103):

  The Masoretic [Hebrew] text has a word that seems to mean "your ornaments" (see 2 Sam 1:24), which makes no sense here (KJV "your mouth" is wrong). Most emend to a word meaning "your lifetime" (see Briggs, Anderson, see 104:33; 146:2) or else translate the Masoretic Text as "the prime of life" (NEB, NJV). The Septuagint [Greek] has "your desire" (so Weiser, "your longing"); NAB translates the Masoretic Text "your lifetime"; Dahood translates it "your eternity," as a reference to the blessed afterlife in heaven; TOB has "your strength." If the translator follows the TEV model, the expression "fills my life with..." may have to be recast to say "he gives me good things as long as I live."

• Psa 103:5
• My 13:22
• S&H 90:23
• Psa 103:16
• S&H 476:24

• Psa 104:3
• Gen 1:6-8
• Psa 18:10-12
• Psa 104:5
• Mat 24:35
• Rev 21:1
• Psa 104:21 - KJV wording: meat - modern translation: food
• Psa 104:24 - KJV wording: manifold - modern translation: many
• Psa 104:24 - KJV wording: riches - correct translation: creatures
• Psa 104:24 - God made them all
• To explore additional references, browse "God made them all" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/g.htm#god-made-all.
• Psa 104:27 - KJV wording: MEAT - modern translation: food
• Psa 104:31 - KJV wording: The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works. - Corrected translation: May the glory of the LORD endure forever: may the LORD rejoice in his works.

• Psa 105:5
• 1Ch 16:12
• 1Ch 16:24
• Psa 9:1
• Mis 199:23
• Psa 105:22 - KJV wording: SENATORS - modern translation: elders

• Psa 106:1 - KJV wording: MERCY - alternative translation: lovingkindness (or: kindness) {Hebrew: gheh-sed}
• Psa 106:1
• Psa 100:4,5
• Psa 107:1
• Psa 118:1
• Psa 136:1
• 1Ch 16:34
• Psa 106:7 - OUR FATHERS UNDERSTOOD NOT THY WONDERS IN EGYPT; THEY REMEMBERED NOT THE MULTITUDE OF THY MERCIES; BUT PROVOKED HIM AT THE SEA, EVEN AT THE RED SEA. a/r: In Egypt our fathers did not understand your wonders; they did not remember your many lovingkindnesses and rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.
• Psa 106:7 - KJV wording: RED SEA - alternative translation: Sea of Reeds {Hebrew: yam suph}
• {browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/redsea.htm to read an explanation of the Hebrew word translated "Red Sea", which was really the "Sea of Reeds".}
• Psa 106:7
• Exo 14:11,12
• Psa 106:19
• Exo 32:1-6
• Psa 106:20 - KJV wording: THUS THEY CHANGED THEIR GLORY INTO THE SIMILITUDE OF AN OX - alternative translation: And they exchanged God's glory for the image of an ox
• Psa 106:20
• Exo 32:1-6
• Rom 1:23
• Psa 106:21
• Deu 32:18
• Psa 106:29 - KJV wording: INVENTIONS - modern translation: doings
• Psa 106:39 - KJV wording: INVENTIONS - modern translation: doings
• Psa 106:44 - KJV wording: REGARDED THEIR AFFLICTION - alternative translation: took notice of their distress {TEV}
• Psa 106:46 - KJV wording: OF ALL THOSE THAT CARRIED THEM CAPTIVES - alternative translation: by all who held them captive
• Psa 106:47 - KJV wording: HEATHEN - alternative translation: nations
• Psa 106:47 - KJV wording: TRIUMPH - alternative translation: glory (or: boast) {Hebrew: shah-vagh}
• Psa 106:47
• Deu 30:3
• 1Ch 16:35
• Psa 106:48
• Psa 41:14
• 1Ch 16:36

• Psa 107:3
• My 63:27
• Psa 107:8
• My 193:8
• Psa 107:9
• Luk 1:53
• Psa 107:18 - KJV wording: MEAT - modern translation: food
• Psa 107:20
• S&H 165:-1 (This is one of the two scriptural quotations that introduce the chapter on "Physiology.")
• Psa 107:39 - KJV wording: MINISHED - modern translation: diminished

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• Psa 109:6 - KJV wording: SATAN - alternative translation: an adversary
• Psa 109:18 - KJV wording: BOWELS - modern translation: heart

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• Psa 111:5 - KJV wording: MEAT - alternative translation: food
• Psa 111:10
• S&H 373:15

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• Psa 114:5-7
• S&H 135:1

• Psa 115:15
• Psa 134:3

• Psa 116:3 - KJV wording: hell - Hebrew: Sheol
• For an explanation of the Hebrew and Greek words translated "hell" in the KJV, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/hell.htm.
• Psa 116:5 - gracious... righteous...merciful
• Psa 112:1,4
• Psa 116:7
• Psa 42:6

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• Psa 118:16
• S&H 38:16
• Psa 118:22
• Mis 196:23

• Psa 119:12
• Psa 119:26,64,68
• Psa 119:36
• Exo 18:21
• Pro 28:16
• Mar 7:22
• Luk 12:15
• Rom 1:29
• Eph 5:3
• Col 3:5
• 1Th 2:5
• Heb 13:5
• 2Pe 2:3
• Mis 19:2
• Psa 119:67
• Mis 208:21
• Psa 119:83 - KJV wording: BOTTLE - alternative translation: jar
• Psa 119:89 - KJV wording: IS SETTLED - alternative translation: stands firm
• Psa 119:89
• Isa 40:8
• Psa 119:90 - KJV wording: ABIDETH - alternative translation: stands fast (or: endures)
• Psa 119:100 - KJV wording: ANCIENTS - alternative translation: elders
• Psa 119:113
• Psa 31:7
• 1Ki 18:21
• Psa 119:128 - KJV wording: THEREFORE I ESTEEM ALL THY PRECEPTS CONCERNING ALL THINGS TO BE RIGHT - alternative translation: Therefore I value all your precepts as wholly right
• Psa 119:128
• Psa 119:29
• Psa 119:130 - KJV wording: ENTRANCE - alternative translation: unfolding (or: opening, disclosure, OR revelation)
• Psa 119:147 - KJV wording: PREVENTED - alternative translation: anticipated
• Psa 119:148 - KJV wording: PREVENT - alternative translation: anticipate

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• Psa 121:2
• Mis 268:18
• Psa 121:7-8
• Num 6:24-26
• Psa 121:8
• [see Psa 121:7-8]
• Deu 28:6

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• Psa 124:3 - KJV wording: QUICK - modern translation: alive

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• Psa 130:1
• Mis 211:13
• My 290:16

• Psa 131:2 - KJV wording: BEHAVED - modern translation: stilled

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• Psa 135:16,17 - ears but cannot hear, eyes but cannot see
• To explore others who have "ears but cannot hear, eyes but cannot see," browse http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/e.htm.
• Psa 135:9 - KJV wording: TOKENS - modern translation: signs

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• Psa 138:3 - KJV wording: my soul <05315> - modern translation: me
• The Hebrew word translatable as "soul" is nephesh. To read a commentary on the meaning and use of nephesh, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/soul.htm. The contents of this article includes:
1. Soul defined from its Hebrew word nephesh
2. Two accounts of the creation of man/woman -- man/woman as originating from the dust/earth (Gen 2:7) versus man/woman as the image of God (Gen 1:26,27)
3. Two types of man/woman -- earthly, physical man/woman of the dust versus spiritual, heavenly man/woman (1Co 15:45-47)

• Psa 139:1,2
• Psa 7:10
• Jer 17:10
• Psa 139:2 - KJV wording: my downsitting and mine uprising - modern translation: when I sit down and when I rise up
• Psa 139:3 - KJV wording: compassest - modern translation: discern (or: determine, observe, mark, give heed to, distinguish, consider)
• Psa 139:4 - KJV wording: thou knowest it altogether - modern translation: you already know it all
• Psa 139:5 - KJV wording: thou has beset me behind and before, - modern translation: You are all around me on every side; (TEV)
• Psa 139:5 - KJV wording: and laid thine hand upon me - modern translation: you protect me with your power.
• Psa 139:8 - KJV wording: hell <07585> - modern translation: Sheol (Hebrew)
• Psa 139:8
• Amo 9:2
• Psa 139:11,12 - KJV wording: 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. - corrected translation: 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

• In the ESV and TEV texts for verse 11, I necessarily include verse 12 as part of the Bible Lesson text. This is to enable the Bible Lesson Study Aid to more fully reflect what the KJV text of verse 11 says. The fact is that the KJV incorrectly translates the second part of verse 11. Virtually all modern Bible versions (including the 1885 RV, 1902 ASV, 1952 RSV, 1985 NJB, 1989 NRSV, 1992 TEV, 1996 REB) and modern Bible commentaries represent all of verse 11 as part of the same condition that begins with "If I say,..." The NRSV translation of verses 11 and 12 is consistent with most other modern translations:

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night," 12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.

The NAB translates these verses (and adds a footnote):

11 If I say, Surely darkness shall hide me, and night shall be my light" * - 12 Darkness is not dark for you, and night shines as the day. Darkness and light are but one.

* Night shall be my light: night to me is what day is to others.

In the outstanding United Bible Societies' commentary, A Handbook on Psalms (NY: UBS, 1993, pages 1126-1127), Robert Bratcher and William Reyburn comment on verses 11 and 12:

Most translations find that the Hebrew text as it is yields a satisfactory sense. In verse 11b instead of the Masoretic Text "and the light around me (become) darkness," the Qumran manuscript has "the night (become) a belt around me"...

Not even the possiblity of changing light into darkness would be of any help to the psalmist, were he to attempt to flee from Yahweh [Jehovah, the Lord God], for with Yahweh there is no difference between darkness and light...

• Psa 139:11,12
• Job 34:22
• Psa 139:12
• Psa 139:11,12
• Psa 139:13 - KJV wording: possessed <07069> - corrected translation: formed
• Psa 139:13 - KJV wording: reins <03629> - corrected translation: inner parts or innermost being or feelings and emotions (literally: kidneys, which were considered the seat of the feelings and emotions)
• For more info, see Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, edited by Laird Harris et al, Chicago: Moody Press, 1980, pages 440-441, #983)
• Psa 139:14 - KJV wording: my soul <05315> - alternative translation: I
• The Hebrew word translatable as "soul" is nephesh. To read a commentary on the meaning and use of nephesh, browse http://www.bibletexts.com/terms/soul.htm.
• Psa 139:16 - KJV wording: unperfect - modern translation: unformed
• Psa 139:19 - KJV wording: bloody - modern translation: blood-thirsty
• Psa 139:23,24
• My 33:8-13
• Ret 14:24-28

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• Psa 141:7 - KJV wording: THE GRAVE'S, Hebrew: Sheol's

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• Psa 143:10 - KJV wording: THY SPIRIT IS GOOD; LEAD ME INTO THE LAND OF UPRIGHTNESS - modern translation: Let your good spirit lead me on a level path. (NRSV)

• Psa 144:4 - KJV wording: VANITY, Hebrew: breath
• Psa 144:8 - KJV wording: VANITY - alternative translation: deceit
• Psa 144:11 - KJV wording: VANITY - alternative translation: deceit

• Psa 145:5
• Psa 19:2-7
• Psa 145:9
• Isa 64:7
• Psa 145:15 - KJV wording: MEAT - alternative translation: food
• Psa 145:15,16
• Psa 104:27,28
• Psa 136:25
• Psa 145:19
• Pro 10:24

• Psa 146:3
• Psa 118:8,9
• Jer 17:5
• Psa 146:5
• Jer 17:7
• Psa 146:8
• Psa 145:14
• Psa 146:10
• S&H vii:20

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• Psa 148:7 - KJV wording: DRAGONS - modern translation: sea-monsters
• Psa 148:12 - MAIDENS {Hebrew: virgins}
• Psa 148:14 - KJV wording: a horn - modern translation: strength
• Hebrew literally: horn. Horn is a "symbol of strength and power." (New Revised Standard Version: The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, page 738, footnote)

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• Psa 150:4 - KJV wording: ORGANS - modern translation: pipe or flute