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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.