Sunday, September 6, 2026

Psalm 2:3

When the Daily Dose of Septuagint went over Psalm 2:3-4, I also read the passage in German and noticed a minor feature in verse 3 in that translation.

"Lasset uns zerreißen ihre Band und von uns werfen ihre Stricke!"
"Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us." [ESV]
The structure of the German differs slightly, resulting in a somewhat greater distance (syntactially if not spatially) between "uns" (us) and "ihre Stricke" (their cords) and consequently emphasizing this separation.  Retaining the word order, it's something like "Let us... from us throw their cords."