Letting Go of the Shepherd Psalm

One word that snags

Now set it back into its own century. What was the community that first heard this actually worried about? Simply imagining that changes the temperature of every line.（コリント人への第二の手紙 13:9）

How you render this one word determines the meaning of the whole paragraph. A translator has to decide, and the decision is already an interpretation. Readers deserve to know that a decision was made.

Let me set the terms. This is not an argument about doctrinal correctness. It is one reader's account of what the text can be made to yield. I am going to leave the ending open on purpose.（知恵の書 13:4-9）

16そこで人々は大いに主を恐れ、犠牲を主にささげて、誓願を立てた。

ヨナ書 1:16（口語訳（日本語））

Following the context

Pull a single verse out of its paragraph and you can make it say almost anything. This particular verse has been made to say a great deal. Which is precisely why it deserves to be read with what stands on either side of it.