[b-hebrew] Ps. 55:23b
Isaac Fried
if at math.bu.edu
Tue Feb 19 23:20:43 EST 2008
John,
The New American Bible renders the second part Psalms 55:(22)23 as
"God will never allow the righteous to stumble", seeing MOT as a
variant of MOK [as in Leviticus 25:25], MUG [as in Nahum 1:5], and
NTH. The KJV renders it more dubiously as "he shall never suffer the
righteous to be moved [moved where?]", seeing MOT as a variant of MU$
[as in Zechariah 14:4]. I would not see MOT as 'shake', certainly not
in the prolonged physical sense.
It stands to reason that L-(OLAM refers to God's time. Yet, indeed,
in Exodus 21:6 L-(OLAM appears in the sense of only 'life-time'.
Psalms 21:5 is open to more than one interpretation.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:42 PM, JBarach at aol.com wrote:
> BHaverim --
>
> In Ps. 55:23b, I see that most translations say something like "He
> will
> never let the righteous be shaken." Whence comes the "never,"
> though?
>
> It appears that the translation never comes from "not" (lo') and
> "forever"
> (l'olam). Is that the normal idiom for expressing the idea that
> something
> will "never" happen? Is the psalm saying that the righteous will
> NEVER be
> shaken? Or is it saying that the righteous will NOT be shaken
> FOREVER? The
> latter would imply that the righteous may certainly be shaken for
> a time, but that
> that time of shaking will come to an end.
>
> Help!
>
> John
>
>
>
>
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