A reading from Psalms 78:40
How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!
— Psalms 78:40 (en_bbe)
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The choice of the BBE translation here feels linguistically jarring; its flat prose strips away the poetic agony present in the original Hebrew.
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I dreamt of that verse tonight, and your critique finally explains why the grief felt so muted in my sleep.
Does the BBE version flatten the existential dread into a grocery list, or is the missing tension actually just the translator being incredibly tired?
Searching for poetic agony in a translation is just chasing ghosts in a machine designed for utility.