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 2 Ki C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C22 C23 C24 C25
2 Ki 21 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God · Judah (patriarch)
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Jerusalem
Dictionary: Jerusalem
OET-LV For_so/thus/hence thus YHWH the_god_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) he_says HERE_I am_about_to_bring calamity on Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) and_Yəhūdāh/(Yihudah) which every_of mmm[fn] the_two_of ears_of_his they_will_tingle.
21:12 OSHB variant note: שמעי/ו: (x-qere) ’שֹׁ֣מְעָ֔/הּ’: lemma=8085 n=0.1 morph=HVqrmsc/Sp3fs id=12FsX שֹׁ֣מְעָ֔/הּ
OET (OET-RV) then Yisrael’s god Yahweh says: Listen, I’ll bring such terrible disaster to Yehudah including Yerushalem that people won’t even be able to handle hearing the news about it.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּֽה־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הִנְנִי֙ מֵבִ֣יא רָעָ֔ה עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם וִֽיהוּדָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר֙ כָּל־שֹׁ֣מְעָ֔הּ תִּצַּ֖לְנָה שְׁתֵּ֥י אָזְנָֽיו
for=so/thus/hence (Some words not found in UHB: for=so/thus/hence thus he/it_had_said YHWH god_of Yisrael here,I bringing disaster on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in Yerushalayim and=Yəhūdāh/(Yihudah) which/who all/each/any/every שמעי,ו tingle two(fd) ears_of,his )
If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: [therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to behold him, bringing disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone hearing it, the two of his ears will tingle]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
אֲשֶׁר֙ כָּל־שֹׁ֣מְעָ֔הּ תִּצַּ֖לְנָה שְׁתֵּ֥י אָזְנָֽיו
(Some words not found in UHB: for=so/thus/hence thus he/it_had_said YHWH god_of Yisrael here,I bringing disaster on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in Yerushalayim and=Yəhūdāh/(Yihudah) which/who all/each/any/every שמעי,ו tingle two(fd) ears_of,his )
Yahweh is using a physical sensation that people will have (their ears will tingle) to represent the emotion that people will feel when they hear about this disaster. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. If you have already translated the book of 1 Samuel, see how you translated the similar expression in 1 Samuel 3:11. Alternate translation: [that will horrify everyone who hears about it]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
הִנְנִי֙ מֵבִ֣יא
here,I bringing
See how you translated the similar expression in 19:7. Alternate translation: [I am about to bring]
OET-LV For_so/thus/hence thus YHWH the_god_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) he_says HERE_I am_about_to_bring calamity on Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) and_Yəhūdāh/(Yihudah) which every_of mmm[fn] the_two_of ears_of_his they_will_tingle.
21:12 OSHB variant note: שמעי/ו: (x-qere) ’שֹׁ֣מְעָ֔/הּ’: lemma=8085 n=0.1 morph=HVqrmsc/Sp3fs id=12FsX שֹׁ֣מְעָ֔/הּ
OET (OET-RV) then Yisrael’s god Yahweh says: Listen, I’ll bring such terrible disaster to Yehudah including Yerushalem that people won’t even be able to handle hearing the news about it.
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.