OET interlinear ISA 13:18

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

וּ⁠קְשָׁת֖וֹת נְעָרִ֣ים תְּרַטַּ֑שְׁנָה

and,bows young_men slaughter

Yahweh is using bows to represent the archers who use them. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression from your culture or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [The archers will dash young men]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

וּ⁠פְרִי־בֶ֨טֶן֙

and_[the],fruit_of womb

Yahweh is using the fruit of the womb as a common expression of the culture to mean “children” or “babies.” If this phrase does not have that meaning for your readers, you could use a comparable expression from your language that does have that meaning, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [the children]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

וּ⁠פְרִי־בֶ֨טֶן֙ לֹ֣א יְרַחֵ֔מוּ עַל־בָּנִ֖ים לֹֽא־תָח֥וּס עֵינָֽ⁠ם

and_[the],fruit_of womb not have_~_mercy on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in sons not pity eye_of,their

If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of compassion and pity, you could express the same ideas in other ways. Alternate translation: [and they will not have tender concern; their eye will not have sympathy on sons]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

עַל־בָּנִ֖ים לֹֽא־תָח֥וּס עֵינָֽ⁠ם

on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in sons not pity eye_of,their

Yahweh is using their eye to represent the Medes themselves and their emotions. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression from your culture or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [they themselves will not have pity on sons]