ris3n's Apologetics Codex

Passage

Psalms 41.13

Book: Psalms · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

Immediate context (±2 verses)

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ASV

11. By this I know that thou delightest in me, Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 12. And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, And settest me before thy face for ever.

13. Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. (Psalms 41:11-13, ASV)

WEB

11. By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me. 12. As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

13. Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. (Psalms 41:11-13, WEB)

KJV

11. By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 12. And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

13. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. (Psalms 41:11-13, KJV)

YLT

11. By this I have known, That Thou hast delighted in me, Because my enemy shouteth not over me. 12. As to me, in mine integrity, Thou hast taken hold upon me, And causest me to stand before Thee to the age.

13. Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age, and unto the age. Amen and Amen. (Psalms 41:11-13, YLT)

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Setting

  • Speaker: the psalmist; the superscription assigns the psalm to David
  • Audience: Israel gathered in worship; the Psalter is the congregation's book
  • Location: the sanctuary and its liturgy, rather than a narrative setting
  • Time period: the monarchy or later; individual psalms are difficult to date and the Psalter was compiled over centuries

Theological reading

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

Not a verse of the psalm proper but the doxology closing Book One of the Psalter. Four such doxologies mark the ends of Books One through Four, and Psalm 150 closes the fifth, which is evidence that the collection was arranged deliberately rather than accumulated.

The editorial fact carries theological weight. Someone divided the Psalter into five books, which has been read since antiquity as a deliberate correspondence to the five books of Moses, making the Psalter Israel's response to the Torah.

The doubled Amen is liturgical assent, and its placement at a seam indicates the collection was used in worship in the form in which it was arranged, not merely read.

Key words

Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap.

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Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

  • ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
  • WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
  • KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
  • YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See Bibles for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.