OET interlinear EZEK 16:3

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet

(Occurrence 0) Your beginning and your birth

(Some words not found in UHB: and,you_will_say thus he/it_had_said my=master GOD to,Jerusalem origins_of,your and,birth(s)_of,your [were]_from,the_land_of of,the_Canaanite[s] father_of,your the=ʼAmorī and,mother_of,your Ḩittiy )

These two phrases share similar meanings. Yahweh speaks of when people founded the city as if it were the city’s birth. (See also: figs-metaphor)

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite

(Some words not found in UHB: and,you_will_say thus he/it_had_said my=master GOD to,Jerusalem origins_of,your and,birth(s)_of,your [were]_from,the_land_of of,the_Canaanite[s] father_of,your the=ʼAmorī and,mother_of,your Ḩittiy )

The Amorites and Hittites were both pagan people groups who lived in the land before the people of Israel conquered it. Yahweh speaks of Jerusalem’s father and mother belonging to these people groups to express that she was born into idolatry.