Psalm 78/Diagrams/Placeholders/42

v. 42 - Preferred

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DiscourseUnit [v. 42]
      Fragment
        Clause
          Predicate
            verb: זָכְרוּ they remembered
            adverb: לֹא not
            Object
              particle: אֶת d.o.m
              Nominal <gloss="his strength">
                ConstructChain 
                  noun: יָד strength
                  suffix-pronoun: וֹ him
      Fragment
        Clause
          Predicate
            verb: זָכְרוּ they remembered <status="elided">
            adverb: לֹא not <status="elided">
            Object
              noun: יוֹם day
              RelativeClause
                RelativeParticle
                  particle: אֲשֶׁר in which
                Clause
                  Predicate
                    verb: פָּד he saved
                    Object
                      suffix-pronoun: ָם them
                    Adverbial
                      PrepositionalPhrase
                        Preposition
                          preposition: מִנִּי from
                        Object
                          noun: צָר adversary 
  

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 DiscourseUnit [v. 42]
      Fragment
        Clause
          Predicate
            verb: זָכְרוּ they remembered
            adverb: לֹא not
            Object
              particle: אֶת d.o.m
              Nominal <gloss="his strength">
                ConstructChain 
                  noun: יָד strength
                  suffix-pronoun: וֹ him
      Fragment
        Clause
          Predicate
            verb: זָכְרוּ they remembered <status="elided">
            adverb: לֹא not <status="elided">
            Object
              noun: יוֹם day
              RelativeClause
                RelativeParticle
                  particle: אֲשֶׁר in which
                Clause
                  Predicate
                    verb: פָּד he saved
                    Object
                      suffix-pronoun: ָם them
                    Adverbial
                      PrepositionalPhrase
                        Preposition
                          preposition: מִנִּי from
                        Object
                          noun: צָר adversary

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Note for v. 42

v. 42 – Our interpretation of the syntax of this verse is followed by all the ancient versions and most modern translations. A minority of modern translations, however, understand the phrase headed by "day" (יוֹם) as adverbial, providing the time in which they did not remember his show of strength (see, e.g., CSB: "They did not remember his power shown on the day he redeemed them from the foe"; cf. CJB, DHH, NFC).

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Once again, with the mention of ""day,"" the reference time moves back. The discourse from vv. 42-57b (cf. the lexical parallelism with v. 9) recounts precisely what they ""did not remember"" (v. 42a), though, artfully passes the ""present"" of v. 42, through the wilderness on into the conquest of the promised land, which brings us back to vv. 9-12 in Shiloh. Notice, too, the double 3pl + 3ms in vv. 40, 58. Alternatively, though slightly awkward, לֹא־זָכְר֥וּ of v. 42 might refer to the Ephraimites in vv. 9-12 who ""did not remember.""

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