InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Hero C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21
Hero 12 V1 V2 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15
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People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV And_I_saw if/because_that not_you were_a_deliverer[fn][fn][fn] and_I_put life_of_my in_palm_of_my and_I_passed_over against the_people_of ˊAmmōn and_he_gave_them YHWH in_hand_of_my and_why have_you(pl)_come_up to_me the_day the_this to_fight against_me.
OET (OET-RV) When I could see that you weren’t coming to assist, I took my life into my own hands. I advanced against the Amonim, and Yahweh gave me victory over them. So why then have you all come here to fight against me today?”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
אֵינְךָ֣ מוֹשִׁ֗יע
not,you (Some words not found in UHB: and,I_saw that/for/because/then/when not,you deliver and,I,put life_of,my in,palm_of,my and,I,passed_over to/towards sons_of ˊAmmōn and,he,gave_them YHWH in,hand_of,my and,,why? come_up to=me the=day the=this to,fight against,me )
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of savior, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [you were not going to save me]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וָאָשִׂ֨ימָה נַפְשִׁ֤י בְכַפִּי֙
(Some words not found in UHB: and,I_saw that/for/because/then/when not,you deliver and,I,put life_of,my in,palm_of,my and,I,passed_over to/towards sons_of ˊAmmōn and,he,gave_them YHWH in,hand_of,my and,,why? come_up to=me the=day the=this to,fight against,me )
Gideon is using a common expression to indicate that he risked his life. Alternate translation: [so I risked my life]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וָֽאֶעְבְּרָה֙ אֶל
(Some words not found in UHB: and,I_saw that/for/because/then/when not,you deliver and,I,put life_of,my in,palm_of,my and,I,passed_over to/towards sons_of ˊAmmōn and,he,gave_them YHWH in,hand_of,my and,,why? come_up to=me the=day the=this to,fight against,me )
The author assumes that his readers will understand that Jephthah crossed over the Jordan River to fight the Ammonites. Alternate translation: [and crossed the Jordan River to fight]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
וְלָמָ֞ה עֲלִיתֶ֥ם אֵלַ֛י הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה לְהִלָּ֥חֶם בִּֽי
and,,why? come_up to=me the=day (Some words not found in UHB: and,I_saw that/for/because/then/when not,you deliver and,I,put life_of,my in,palm_of,my and,I,passed_over to/towards sons_of ˊAmmōn and,he,gave_them YHWH in,hand_of,my and,,why? come_up to=me the=day the=this to,fight against,me )
Jephthah is using the question form for emphasis. If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this as a statement or exclamation. Alternate translation: [So you should not have come to fight with me today!]
OET-LV And_I_saw if/because_that not_you were_a_deliverer[fn][fn][fn] and_I_put life_of_my in_palm_of_my and_I_passed_over against the_people_of ˊAmmōn and_he_gave_them YHWH in_hand_of_my and_why have_you(pl)_come_up to_me the_day the_this to_fight against_me.
OET (OET-RV) When I could see that you weren’t coming to assist, I took my life into my own hands. I advanced against the Amonim, and Yahweh gave me victory over them. So why then have you all come here to fight against me today?”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.