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In the following outline of thirteen psalms translated since 1937, the preoccupation with darkness and the elimination of any reference to death is conspicuous.
Writes the translator [ The Psalms , 1976]: “I abolished `the Lord' but felt unwilling to call God, Yahweh.
In The Psalms , the translator writes in his preface, “I have tried not to substitute without necessity new English phrases for what was old and well-loved, but unity and modernization of language as well as the true meaning of Hebrew have often made changes inevitable.”
But a distinct majority of those surveyed failed even to recognize the expressions "New wine into old bottles" (Mark 2:22); "The price of wisdom is above rubies" (Job 28:18); "Put not your trust in princes" (Psalms 146:3); "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"
These include watching an NBA game together at the White House, receptions, bill signings, breakfasts, dinners, gift exchanges (an autographed basketball for the president, the book of Psalms for Hillary) and an invitation (declined) from Clinton to Coia to join him on a trip to Haiti.