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
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Yir 1 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV And_I_said alas my_master YHWH HERE not I_know to_speak[fn] if/because am_a_youth I.
1:6 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
OET (OET-RV) But I said, “Oh no, Yahweh, my master. Listen, I don’t know how to speak, because I’m just a young lad.”
(Occurrence 0) Ah, Lord Yahweh
(Some words not found in UHB: and,I_said ah my=master GOD see/lo/see! not I_know speak that/for/because/then/when youth I )
Here “Ah” shows Jeremiah’s fear of doing what God has said.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
(Occurrence 0) I do not know how to speak
(Some words not found in UHB: and,I_said ah my=master GOD see/lo/see! not I_know speak that/for/because/then/when youth I )
Jeremiah may have been exaggerating to show his fear of speaking in public. Alternate translation: [I do not know how to speak in public] or [I do not know how to make announcements to people]
OET-LV And_I_said alas my_master YHWH HERE not I_know to_speak[fn] if/because am_a_youth I.
1:6 OSHB note: BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
OET (OET-RV) But I said, “Oh no, Yahweh, my master. Listen, I don’t know how to speak, because I’m just a young lad.”
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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