Psalms 18:29

NETBible

Indeed, 1  with your help 2  I can charge against 3  an army; 4  by my God’s power 5  I can jump over a wall. 6 

NIV ©

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.

NASB ©

For by You I can run upon a troop; And by my God I can leap over a wall.

NLT ©

In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall.

MSG ©

I smash the bands of marauders, I vault the highest fences.

BBE ©

By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

NRSV ©

By you I can crush a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

NKJV ©

For by You I can run against a troop, By my God I can leap over a wall.

KJV
For by thee I have run through
<07323> (8799)
a troop
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and by my God
<0430>
have I leaped over
<01801> (8762)
a wall
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{run...: or, broken}
NASB ©
For by You I can run
<7323>
upon a troop
<1416>
; And by my God
<430>
I can leap
<1801>
over a wall
<7791>
.
LXXM
(17:30) oti
<3754> 
CONJ
en
<1722> 
PREP
soi
<4771> 
P-DS
rusyhsomai {V-FPI-1S} apo
<575> 
PREP
peirathriou {N-GSN} kai
<2532> 
CONJ
en
<1722> 
PREP
tw
<3588> 
T-DSM
yew
<2316> 
N-DSM
mou
<1473> 
P-GS
uperbhsomai
<5233> 
V-FMI-1S
teicov
<5038> 
N-ASN
NET [draft] ITL
Indeed
<03588>
, with your help I can charge
<07323>
against an army
<01416>
; by my God’s
<0430>
power I can jump over
<01801>
a wall
<07791>
.
HEBREW
rws
<07791>
glda
<01801>
yhlabw
<0430>
dwdg
<01416>
Ura
<07323>
Kb
<0>
yk
<03588>
(18:29)
<18:30>
NETBible

Indeed, 1  with your help 2  I can charge against 3  an army; 4  by my God’s power 5  I can jump over a wall. 6 

NET Notes

1 tn Or “for.” The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is asseverative here.

2 tn Heb “by you.”

3 tn Heb “I will run.” The imperfect verbal forms in v. 29 indicate the subject’s potential or capacity to perform an action. Though one might expect a preposition to follow the verb here, this need not be the case with the verb רוּץ (ruts; see 1 Sam 17:22). Some emend the Qal to a Hiphil form of the verb and translate, “I put to flight [Heb “cause to run”] an army.”

4 tn More specifically, the noun גְּדוּד (gÿdud) refers to a raiding party or to a contingent of troops.

4 sn I can charge against an army. The picture of a divinely empowered warrior charging against an army in almost superhuman fashion appears elsewhere in ancient Near Eastern literature. See R. B. Chisholm, “An Exegetical and Theological Study of Psalm 18/2 Samuel 22” (Th.D. diss., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1983), 228.

5 tn Heb “and by my God.”

6 sn I can jump over a wall. The psalmist uses hyperbole to emphasize his God-given military superiority.