Psalm 56:8
Hebrew Bible
6 They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life. 7 Because they are bent on violence, do not let them escape. In your anger bring down the nations, O God. 8 You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container. Are they not recorded in your scroll? 9 My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side. 10 In God—I boast in his promise—in the Lord—I boast in his promise—
Date: 6th-3rd Centuries B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Psalm 55:9
Septuagint
6 The whole day they were abhorring my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. 7 They will dwell beside and will hide my heel. They will keep watch just as I waited upon my soul. 8 For nothing you will save them. In wrath you will bring down peoples, O God. 9 My life I proclaimed to you. You set my tears before you, as even in your promise. 10 My enemies will turn around backwards in whichever day I call upon you. Look, I knew that you are my God.
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Schaper finds these ‘proto-Rabbinic exegetical methods’, similar to Tov’s ‘midrash-type’ texts and actualizations, in the Greek Psalms. He thus finds the exegetical method of gezerah shavah, whereby one passage is modified to conform to another similar one, in LXX Psalm 55. There a reference in the Hebrew to a ‘book’ appears in the LXX as a ‘promise’. Schaper follows Flashar and suggests the promise is an allusion to Isaiah 25:8 in the context of the eschatological banquet drawing together the nations in Jerusalem. In Isaiah it is announced that God ‘has wiped away the tears from every cheek’, while Psalm 55 speaks of tears being visible before God. The translator of the Psalms, viewing both texts as God’s pity on the tears of his people, chose ‘promise’ to allude to Isaiah 25. Schaper therefore suggests that this technique is the same as the rabbinic principle of Hillel, the gezerah shavah." ..."
Aitken, James K.
"Psalms" in Aitken, J. K. (ed.) T&T Clark Companion to the Septuagint
(pp. 324-325) T&T Clark International, 2015
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