"Dwelling Together"

Purpose: To celebrate dwelling together in Zion as a mark of God's blessings!

Content: Brothers dwelling together on Zion is good and right, because there they enjoy the blessing YHWH has sent: life everlasting.

Message: On Zion, God and his people experience the blessing of unity.

Author: anonymous

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Overview

Translation

Click 'Expand' to the right to see our Close-but-Clear translation of Psalm 133.

1. The song of the ascents. By David.

Look, how good and how right

that brothers dwell—even together!

2. [It is] like the valuable oil on the head,

flowing down onto the beard, the beard of Aaron;

which flows down onto the collar of his garments.

3. [It is] like the dew of Hermon, which flows down onto the hills of Zion.

For there YHWH has sent the blessing—

life everlasting.

The Close-but-clear translation (CBC) exists to provide a window into the Hebrew text according to how we understand its syntax and word-to-phrase-level semantics. It is designed to be "close" to the Hebrew, while still being "clear." Specifically, the CBC encapsulates and reflects the following layers of analysis: grammar, lexical semantics, phrase-level semantics, and verbal semantics. It does not reflect our analysis of the discourse or of poetics. It is not intended to be used as a stand-alone translation or base text, but as a supplement to Layer-by-Layer materials to help users make full use of these resources.

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