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2 Ki 20 V1 V2 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God · Hezekiah (KI2 16:20)
OET-LV Please Oh_YHWH remember please DOM how I_have_walked_about to_your_face in_faithfulness and_with_a_heart complete and_the_good in_eyes_of_your I_have_done and_ Ḩizqiyyāh _he_wept weeping great.
OET (OET-RV) “Oh Yahweh, please remember that I’ve served you faithfully, and done what you asked with total sincerity.” Then Hizkiyah cried loudly.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
זְכָר
remember
Hezekiah is not suggesting that Yahweh does not remember these things and needs to be reminded of them. He is asking Yahweh to take them into consideration. Alternate translation: [consider] or [take into consideration]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
הִתְהַלַּ֣כְתִּי
(Some words not found in UHB: o YHWH remember now DOM which/who walked to=your=face in,faithfulness and,with,a_heart whole and,the,good in,eyes_of,your done and,he_wept Ḩizqiyyāh weeping bitterly )
See how you translated the similar expression in 8:18. Alternate translation: [I have lived]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
לְפָנֶ֗יךָ
to=your=face
See how you translated the similar expression in 3:14. Alternate translation: [in your presence]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
בֶּֽאֱמֶת֙
(Some words not found in UHB: o YHWH remember now DOM which/who walked to=your=face in,faithfulness and,with,a_heart whole and,the,good in,eyes_of,your done and,he_wept Ḩizqiyyāh weeping bitterly )
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of faithfulness, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [faithfully]
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וּבְלֵבָ֣ב שָׁלֵ֔ם
and,with,a_heart (Some words not found in UHB: o YHWH remember now DOM which/who walked to=your=face in,faithfulness and,with,a_heart whole and,the,good in,eyes_of,your done and,he_wept Ḩizqiyyāh weeping bitterly )
Here the heart represents a person’s intentions and commitments. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [and in complete devotion]
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
וְהַטּ֥וֹב בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ עָשִׂ֑יתִי
and,the,good (Some words not found in UHB: o YHWH remember now DOM which/who walked to=your=face in,faithfulness and,with,a_heart whole and,the,good in,eyes_of,your done and,he_wept Ḩizqiyyāh weeping bitterly )
See how you translated the similar expression in 1:13. Alternate translation: [and I have done what you consider to be good]
Note 7 topic: writing-poetry
וַיֵּ֥בְךְּ חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ בְּכִ֥י גָדֽוֹל
(Some words not found in UHB: o YHWH remember now DOM which/who walked to=your=face in,faithfulness and,with,a_heart whole and,the,good in,eyes_of,your done and,he_wept Ḩizqiyyāh weeping bitterly )
The author is using a construction in which a verb and its object come from the same root. You may be able to use the same construction in your language to express the meaning here. Alternatively, your language may have another way of saying this. Alternate translation: [And Hezekiah wept bitterly]
OET-LV Please Oh_YHWH remember please DOM how I_have_walked_about to_your_face in_faithfulness and_with_a_heart complete and_the_good in_eyes_of_your I_have_done and_ Ḩizqiyyāh _he_wept weeping great.
OET (OET-RV) “Oh Yahweh, please remember that I’ve served you faithfully, and done what you asked with total sincerity.” Then Hizkiyah cried loudly.
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.