Translate Mode

The preacher reads a verse aloud and the words are not the ones on your screen. Translate Mode answers the question that matters at that moment: which translation is that? It puts the verse in front of you in every translation you have installed, so you can recognise the wording and switch to it before the sentence is finished.

Use it

Click the verse being read, then press Ctrl+T (Cmd+T on a Mac), or use the Translate Mode button above the Bible browser. The list dims and a panel opens on that verse with the same verse in every other installed translation, each wording under the name of the translation it comes from.

Click the one you just heard: the browser switches to that translation, at the verse you were on, and the panel closes. Escape leaves and changes nothing.

A translation that does not carry the verse simply is not in the list, and the button needs a verse selected, since there is nothing to anchor the panel on otherwise.

From one verse

Right-click any verse and choose Find in Another Translation to open the same panel on it without selecting it first. The panel always compares a single verse, so a range you had selected collapses to the verse you clicked.

Nothing reaches the projector

Switching translation this way changes what you are reading, not what the hall sees. The passage already up stays up, and its rows keep the Live badge, now carrying the name of the translation it went out in, so a list whose wording no longer matches the wall is never a mystery. Press Show when you want the new translation up there too.

Showing two translations at once

That is a different control: Compare translation. Open the translation picker and each translation carries an eye beside it. Turn one on and what you show goes out in both, in the theme’s parallel arrangement rather than as two separate sends; the same eye turns it off.

Translate Mode is for finding the right words. Compare translation is for a service with an interpreter, or a congregation that does not all read the same language.

Speakers and their translations

A speaker can carry a language and two translations, a primary and a secondary. Selecting the speaker moves the browser to their primary translation, and both sit at the top of the translation picker marked P and S. A guest who preaches from one translation and a resident pastor who preaches from another are two rows in Speakers, which usually puts the translation you would go hunting for already in front of you.