OET interlinear EZRA 10:1

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-participants

וּ⁠כְ⁠הִתְפַּלֵּ֤ל עֶזְרָא֙

(Some words not found in UHB: and,just,as_was_praying ˊEzrāʼ and,just,as,he_was_confessing weeping and,prostrating_himself to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before house_of the=ʼElohīm gathered to=him/it from,Israel assembly great//chief/captain very men and,women and,children that/for/because/then/when they_wept the,people to_be_bitter weeping )

Previously in the book, Ezra was a character in a story that someone else was telling. Then starting from 7:27 he is the person telling the story, and he continues to tell it through to the end of chapter 9. Now from here to the end of the book, the story changes back to someone else talking about Ezra as a character in the story. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could continue to translate this chapter as though Ezra were telling it. Alternate translation: [And when I prayed]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

וּ⁠כְ⁠הִתְפַּלֵּ֤ל עֶזְרָא֙ וּ⁠כְ֨⁠הִתְוַדֹּת֔⁠וֹ

(Some words not found in UHB: and,just,as_was_praying ˊEzrāʼ and,just,as,he_was_confessing weeping and,prostrating_himself to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before house_of the=ʼElohīm gathered to=him/it from,Israel assembly great//chief/captain very men and,women and,children that/for/because/then/when they_wept the,people to_be_bitter weeping )

These two phrases mean similar things. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could combine them. Alternate translation: [While Ezra was praying this prayer of confession]

Note 3 topic: translate-symaction

וּ⁠מִתְנַפֵּ֔ל לִ⁠פְנֵ֖י בֵּ֣ית הָ⁠אֱלֹהִ֑ים

(Some words not found in UHB: and,just,as_was_praying ˊEzrāʼ and,just,as,he_was_confessing weeping and,prostrating_himself to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before house_of the=ʼElohīm gathered to=him/it from,Israel assembly great//chief/captain very men and,women and,children that/for/because/then/when they_wept the,people to_be_bitter weeping )

By casting himself down onto the ground in front of the temple, Ezra was symbolically pleading with God, who was considered to be present in the temple, the way a supplicant in this culture would get down with his face on the ground to plead with a powerful person. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could say that explicitly. Alternate translation: [and pleading with God by falling down onto the ground in front of the temple]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

לִ⁠פְנֵ֖י בֵּ֣ית הָ⁠אֱלֹהִ֑ים

to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before (Some words not found in UHB: and,just,as_was_praying ˊEzrāʼ and,just,as,he_was_confessing weeping and,prostrating_himself to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before house_of the=ʼElohīm gathered to=him/it from,Israel assembly great//chief/captain very men and,women and,children that/for/because/then/when they_wept the,people to_be_bitter weeping )

Here, face means the front of a place. Alternate translation: [in front of the temple]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

בָכ֥וּ הָ⁠עָ֖ם הַרְבֵּה־בֶֽכֶה

they_wept the,people (Some words not found in UHB: and,just,as_was_praying ˊEzrāʼ and,just,as,he_was_confessing weeping and,prostrating_himself to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before house_of the=ʼElohīm gathered to=him/it from,Israel assembly great//chief/captain very men and,women and,children that/for/because/then/when they_wept the,people to_be_bitter weeping )

This is an idiom that means that the people wept a lot. This could refer to either loudness or length, or both. Alternate translation: [the people cried very bitterly]

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

בָכ֥וּ הָ⁠עָ֖ם הַרְבֵּה־בֶֽכֶה

they_wept the,people (Some words not found in UHB: and,just,as_was_praying ˊEzrāʼ and,just,as,he_was_confessing weeping and,prostrating_himself to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before house_of the=ʼElohīm gathered to=him/it from,Israel assembly great//chief/captain very men and,women and,children that/for/because/then/when they_wept the,people to_be_bitter weeping )

The implication is that the people were weeping because they realized what a wrong thing they had done and how guilty they were because of it. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could say that explicitly. Alternate translation: [the people began to weep very bitterly because they realized that they had sinned and were guilty]