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People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV Not a_message it_fell from_all (the)_message (the)_good which YHWH he_had_spoken to the_house_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) (the)_everything it_came.
OET (OET-RV) Yahweh kept every promise that he’d made to the Israelis—it all happened just like he’d said.
Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel had failed;
None of the good words which Yahweh had spoken to Israel were left undone.
There was no promise which Yahweh had made to the people of Israel which he did not keep.
Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel had failed: This clause is more literally, “Not a word fell from all the good words that Yahweh spoke to the house of Israel.”
the house of Israel: The phrase the house of Israel refers to all the people of Israel.
had failed: The verb had failed indicates that there was no promise that Yahweh had not kept.
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
None of the good words which Yahweh had spoken to Israel were unfulfilled.
There was no promise which Yahweh had made to the people of Israel which he did not keep.
everything was fulfilled.
Everything happened just as he had said.
Every one of his promises came true.
everything was fulfilled: The clause everything was fulfilled indicates that everything happened that Yahweh had said would happen.
Here are some other ways to translate this part of the verse:
Everything happened just as he had said.
Every one of his promises came true.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
לֹֽא־נָפַ֣ל דָּבָ֔ר מִכֹּל֙ הַדָּבָ֣ר הַטּ֔וֹב אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל
not failed (Some words not found in UHB: not failed message from=all (the),word (the),good which/who he/it_had_said YHWH to/towards house_of Yisrael (the),everything he/it_came )
The author is speaking as if Yahweh’s words were objects that could fall to the ground in failure and be lost. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [Not a single one of the good words Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel failed to come true]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
הַכֹּ֖ל בָּֽא
(Some words not found in UHB: not failed message from=all (the),word (the),good which/who he/it_had_said YHWH to/towards house_of Yisrael (the),everything he/it_came )
The author is speaking of the whole (that is, everything that Yahweh had promised) as if it were a living thing that could come to a destination. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [Everything happened just as he said it would]
OET-LV Not a_message it_fell from_all (the)_message (the)_good which YHWH he_had_spoken to the_house_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) (the)_everything it_came.
OET (OET-RV) Yahweh kept every promise that he’d made to the Israelis—it all happened just like he’d said.
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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