OET interlinear EZRA 9:5

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

קַ֚מְתִּי מִ⁠תַּֽעֲנִיתִ֔⁠י וּ⁠בְ⁠קָרְעִ֥⁠י בִגְדִ֖⁠י וּ⁠מְעִילִ֑⁠י

(Some words not found in UHB: and,at,the_offering_of of,the_evening got_up from,humiliation_of,my and,in,tearing,my my_garment_of,my and,robe_of,my and,I,bowed_down on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in knees_of,my and,I,spread_out palms_of,my to/towards YHWH God_of,my )

Even though Ezra had been sitting down and he now got up, in this context the word arise means more than that. As in 1:5, 3:2, and 5:2, it means to take action to get an enterprise under way. Ezra had been sitting motionless to show how ashamed and upset he was. Now he began to take action to address the situation that the clan leaders had told him about. Alternate translation: [I stopped sitting motionless in my torn clothes and began to do something about the situation]

Note 2 topic: translate-symaction

וּ⁠בְ⁠קָרְעִ֥⁠י בִגְדִ֖⁠י וּ⁠מְעִילִ֑⁠י

and,in,tearing,my my_garment_of,my and,robe_of,my

As the note to 9:3 explains, Ezra had torn his clothes to show how wrong it was for the Israelites to have married foreign women. By not changing out of his torn clothes, Ezra was continuing to show that symbolically. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could say that explicitly. Alternate translation: [but I kept wearing my torn clothes to show how wrong it was for the Israelites to have married foreign women]

Note 3 topic: translate-symaction

וָֽ⁠אֶכְרְעָ⁠ה֙ עַל־בִּרְכַּ֔⁠י וָ⁠אֶפְרְשָׂ֥⁠ה כַפַּ֖⁠י אֶל־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהָֽ⁠י

and,I,bowed_down on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in (Some words not found in UHB: and,at,the_offering_of of,the_evening got_up from,humiliation_of,my and,in,tearing,my my_garment_of,my and,robe_of,my and,I,bowed_down on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in knees_of,my and,I,spread_out palms_of,my to/towards YHWH God_of,my )

These two physical gestures showed publicly that Ezra was going to pray. Alternate translation: [I knelt down and spread out my hands in a gesture of prayer to Yahweh my God.]