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Psalm 94:17

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94:17If the Lord had not helped me,

I would have laid down in the silence of death.22

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  1. 22 Heb “If the Lord [were] not my help, quickly my life would have lain down 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 (luley, “if not”) in the protasis and a perfect verbal form in the apodosis, see Pss 119:92 and 124:2–5.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

If the Lord had not been my help,

my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Unless the Lord had given me help,

I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If the Lord had not been my helper,

I would soon rest in the silence of death.

NLTNew Living Translation

Unless the Lord had helped me,

I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

If Yahweh had not been my help,

my soul would soon have dwelt in silence.

KJV 1900King James Version

Unless the Lord had been my help,

My soul had almost dwelt in silence.