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People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET-LV All_of people_of_its are_groaning they_are_seeking bread they_have_given mmm[fn][fn] for_food to_restore life see Oh_YHWH and_look if/because I_am worthless.
OET (OET-RV) All her people are groaning, searching for bread.
⇔ They give their treasures to restore life with food.
⇔ “Look and see, Yahweh, because I’ve become worthless.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
מְבַקְּשִׁ֣ים לֶ֔חֶם
(Some words not found in UHB: all/each/any/every people_of,its groan search_for food/grain/bread trade מחמודי,הם for,food to,restore soul look YHWH and,look, that/for/because/then/when am despised )
The author is using one kind of food, bread, to mean food in general. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [seeking food]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
לְהָשִׁ֣יב נָ֑פֶשׁ
(Some words not found in UHB: all/each/any/every people_of,its groan search_for food/grain/bread trade מחמודי,הם for,food to,restore soul look YHWH and,look, that/for/because/then/when am despised )
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of life, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [to keep themselves alive]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / quotations
רְאֵ֤ה יְהוָה֙ וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה כִּ֥י הָיִ֖יתִי זוֹלֵלָֽה
look YHWH (Some words not found in UHB: all/each/any/every people_of,its groan search_for food/grain/bread trade מחמודי,הם for,food to,restore soul look YHWH and,look, that/for/because/then/when am despised )
It would be good to present this as a direct quotation, if possible, to show that the city of Jerusalem is speaking to Yahweh.
OET-LV All_of people_of_its are_groaning they_are_seeking bread they_have_given mmm[fn][fn] for_food to_restore life see Oh_YHWH and_look if/because I_am worthless.
OET (OET-RV) All her people are groaning, searching for bread.
⇔ They give their treasures to restore life with food.
⇔ “Look and see, Yahweh, because I’ve become worthless.
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.