[Cicero]

The new translations just keep getting worse and worse. I don't even think the NIV is all that good. When I teach parts of the Bible in one of my courses, I generally use the RSV--an excellent translation based on the traditional Authorized Version (with moderate modernization and a few corrections) and agreed on by Protestant and Catholic scholars working together, before they all started running after strange gods and selling out to the Gender Police.

[thucydides]

These modern translations destroy the poetry. For example: King James Version: "Lift up ye gates" Modern: "Open the door"