OET interlinear HAB 1:10

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

וְ⁠הוּא֙ בַּ⁠מְּלָכִ֣ים יִתְקַלָּ֔ס וְ⁠רֹזְנִ֖ים מִשְׂחָ֣ק ל֑⁠וֹ

and=he (Some words not found in UHB: and=he (in,kings scoff and,rulers joke to=him/it he/it to/from=all/each/any/every fortress laugh and,it_heaped_up dust and,it,captured_it )

See how your translation team has decided to represent pairs of clauses in Hebrew poetry that mean basically the same thing. Alternate translation: [And he thoroughly ridicules all rulers and kings]

Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns

וְ⁠הוּא֙ בַּ⁠מְּלָכִ֣ים יִתְקַלָּ֔ס

and=he (Some words not found in UHB: and=he (in,kings scoff and,rulers joke to=him/it he/it to/from=all/each/any/every fortress laugh and,it_heaped_up dust and,it,captured_it )

Here, the author uses the independent pronoun he twice for emphasis in the Hebrew. If a speaker of your language would not repeat the pronoun, you could express the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: [And he himself mocks at kings]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וְ⁠רֹזְנִ֖ים מִשְׂחָ֣ק ל֑⁠וֹ

and,rulers (Some words not found in UHB: and=he (in,kings scoff and,rulers joke to=him/it he/it to/from=all/each/any/every fortress laugh and,it_heaped_up dust and,it,captured_it )

The author is speaking of rulers as if they were merely objects of his laughter. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [he laughs at rulers]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

מִשְׂחָ֣ק

(Some words not found in UHB: and=he (in,kings scoff and,rulers joke to=him/it he/it to/from=all/each/any/every fortress laugh and,it_heaped_up dust and,it,captured_it )

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of laughter, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [are something he laughs at]

Note 5 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

וַ⁠יִּצְבֹּ֥ר עָפָ֖ר וַֽ⁠יִּלְכְּדָֽ⁠הּ

(Some words not found in UHB: and=he (in,kings scoff and,rulers joke to=him/it he/it to/from=all/each/any/every fortress laugh and,it_heaped_up dust and,it,captured_it )

In this verse, the mocking of kings and rulers is described before the military action that makes that mocking possible. He piles up a siege ramp and captures the fortress—and that is why he can mock. If your language needs an explicit connector to show that the second clause is the result of the first, you could use one. Alternate translation: [He piles up dirt and captures every fortress, and so he mocks at kings, and rulers are laughter to him.]

Note 6 topic: writing-pronouns

ה֚וּא לְ⁠כָל־מִבְצָ֣ר יִשְׂחָ֔ק

he/it to/from=all/each/any/every fortress (Some words not found in UHB: and=he (in,kings scoff and,rulers joke to=him/it he/it to/from=all/each/any/every fortress laugh and,it_heaped_up dust and,it,captured_it )

Here the author again uses the independent pronoun He twice for emphasis in the Hebrew. If a speaker of your language would not repeat the pronoun, you could express the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: [He himself laughs at every fortress]