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Yir 12 V1 V2 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17
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People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV And_you(ms) Oh_YHWH you_know_me you_see_me and_you_test heart_of_my with_you drag_them_away like_sheep to_slaughter and_set_them_apart to_a_day_of slaughter.
OET (OET-RV) but Yahweh, you know me.
⇔ ≈ You see me, and test my heart toward you.
⇔ Drag them away like sheep doing to slaughter,
⇔ ≈ and reserve a time for them to be slaughtered.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
(Occurrence 0) my heart
(Some words not found in UHB: and=you(ms) YHWH you,know_me you,see_me and,you_test heart_of,my with,you drag,them_away like,sheep to,slaughter and,set,them_apart to,a_day_of slaughter )
Here the “heart” represents a person’s thoughts and true feelings. Alternate translation: [my thoughts] or [my inner feelings]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
(Occurrence 0) Take them away like sheep to the slaughter
(Some words not found in UHB: and=you(ms) YHWH you,know_me you,see_me and,you_test heart_of,my with,you drag,them_away like,sheep to,slaughter and,set,them_apart to,a_day_of slaughter )
Here Jeremiah asks Yahweh to prepare to punish the wicked as if they were sheep to be taken away to be slaughtered. Alternate translation: [Take the wicked people away, like sheep for slaughter] or [Prepare to punish those wicked people]
(Occurrence 0) the day of slaughter
(Some words not found in UHB: and=you(ms) YHWH you,know_me you,see_me and,you_test heart_of,my with,you drag,them_away like,sheep to,slaughter and,set,them_apart to,a_day_of slaughter )
Alternate translation: [the day they will be destroyed]
OET-LV And_you(ms) Oh_YHWH you_know_me you_see_me and_you_test heart_of_my with_you drag_them_away like_sheep to_slaughter and_set_them_apart to_a_day_of slaughter.
OET (OET-RV) but Yahweh, you know me.
⇔ ≈ You see me, and test my heart toward you.
⇔ Drag them away like sheep doing to slaughter,
⇔ ≈ and reserve a time for them to be slaughtered.
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.
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