uW Translation Notes:

General Information:

Yahweh speaks about his desire for wicked people.

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

(Occurrence 0) Do I greatly rejoice over the death of the wicked … and not in his turning away from his way so that he may live?

(Some words not found in UHB: really,(take_pleasure)? have_~_pleasure to_die wicked declares_of my=master GOD am=not in,his_turning,back from,ways_of,his and,he_will_live )

Yahweh asks this rhetorical question in order to emphasize the opposite. Alternate translation: [I do not greatly rejoice over the death of the wicked … but I do greatly rejoice if he turns away from his way so that he may live.]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person

(Occurrence 0) this is the Lord Yahweh’s declaration

(Some words not found in UHB: really,(take_pleasure)? have_~_pleasure to_die wicked declares_of my=master GOD am=not in,his_turning,back from,ways_of,his and,he_will_live )

Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. See how you translated this in [Ezekiel 5:11](../05/11.md). Alternate translation: [this is what the Lord Yahweh has declared] or [this is what I, the Lord Yahweh, have declared]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) not in his turning away from his way

(Some words not found in UHB: really,(take_pleasure)? have_~_pleasure to_die wicked declares_of my=master GOD am=not in,his_turning,back from,ways_of,his and,he_will_live )

Yahweh speaks of a person’s lifestyle or behavior as if it were a way on which the person walks. The idiom “to turn away” from something means to stop doing that thing. Alternate translation: [not in his ceasing to live the way that he lives] (See also: figs-idiom)