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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.Ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ps 25:11 imperative & waw
  • Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:58:55 -0500

Steve:

I read this waw as having a meaning translated
better as "that" than "and". The same as the last
waw in Isaiah 53:2 "that we should desire that
particular one."

So the reading of Psalm 25:11 "It is for your
name's sake that you forgive my perversion, for
it is great."

Karl W. Randolph.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>
>
> Friends,
>
> I have 2 questions on Ps 25:11 - For Your name’s sake, O Lord, Pardon my
> iniquity for it is great.
>
> לְמַֽעַן־שִׁמְךָ יְהוָה וְֽסָלַחְתָּ לַעֲוֹנִי כִּי רַב־הֽוּא׃
>
>
>
> Question 1:
>
> The verb “pardon” in this verse is 2nd person perfect with a waw prefix, but
> it is usually translated as imperative as above.
>
> I have noticed this a lot, in the Psalms at least, that 2nd person imperfect
> or perfect is translated as imperative.
>
> Would it be more accurate to translate it as, “For Your name’s sake, O Lord,
> you have pardoned …”(YLT)?
>
> Or “For Your name’s sake, O Lord, you will pardon …” (Darby) with the waw
> reversing the tense?
>
> If it is best translated as imperative, what is the difference in meaning
> between this and a real imperative in the text?
>
>
>
> Question 2:
>
> What is the meaning of the “waw” prefixed to “pardon”. All translations that
> I have looked at (KJB, YLT, Darby, ASV, Stone Tanach) except for LXX ignore
> it. LXX translates it as:
>
> For Your name’s sake, O Lord, *also* pardon …
>
> There is no way to join “for Your name’s sake” to the end of the previous
> verse because of the change in person from 3rd to 2nd.
>
> Would it be correct in translating it into English, to move the waw to the
> beginning as in:
>
> And for Your name’s sake, O Lord, Pardon ….?
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Steve Miller,
>
> Detroit

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