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# I have been with you wherever you went. I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name great, like the names of the great ones of the earth
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This continues the quotations within quotations. It may be necessary to translate the direct quotations as indirect quotations as in the UDB. Alternate translation: "I have been with him wherever he went. I have cut off all his enemies from before him. Now I will make his name great, like the name of the great ones of the earth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-quotations]])
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# I have been with you
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Here "with you" means that Yahweh has helped and blessed David. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
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# I have cut off all your enemies
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Yahweh destroying David's enemies is spoken of as if Yahweh cut them off, as one would cut a piece of cloth or cut a branch from a tree. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# make your name great
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Here "name" represents a person's reputation. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# the great ones
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The phrase "great ones" means famous persons.
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