17 If (A)the Lord had not been my help,
My soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.

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17 If the Lord had not helped me,
I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 94:17 tn Heb “If the Lord [were] not my help, quickly my life would have dwelt in silence.” The psalmist, perhaps speaking as the nation’s representative, recalls God’s past intervention. For other examples of conditional sentences with the term לוּלֵי (lule, “if not”) in the protasis and a perfect verbal form in the apodosis, see Pss 119:92 and 124:2-5.

17 Unless the Lord had helped me,
    I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave.

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17 Unless the Lord had given me help,(A)
    I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.(B)

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