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People tagged in the matching LV passage: God · Jacob (Israel)
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Jerusalem · Zion
Dictionary: Jerusalem
OET-LV Tsiyyōn/(Zion) it_has_spread_out (in)_hands_of_its there_is_not a_comforter to/for_her/it YHWH he_has_commanded of_Yaˊₐqoⱱ/(Jacob) those_around_of_him be_his_foes_of_will Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) it_has_become (into)_an_impure_thing between_them.
OET (OET-RV) Tsiyon (Zion) has spread her hands wide—there is no comforter for her.
⇔ Yahweh commanded that those surrounding Ya’akov (Jacob) become his enemies.
⇔ Yerushalem (Jerusalem) has become filth in the middle of them.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
פֵּֽרְשָׂ֨ה צִיּ֜וֹן בְּיָדֶ֗יהָ
(Some words not found in UHB: stretches_out Tsiyyōn/(Zion) (in),hands_of,its not comfort to/for=her/it commanded YHWH of,Jacob [those]_around_of,him be]_his_foes_of,[will she/it_was Yerushalayim (into)_an,impure_thing between,them )
The author is speaking of Zion as if it were a woman who could spread out her hands in a gesture of pleading. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [The people of Zion plead for help]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
הָיְתָ֧ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֛ם לְנִדָּ֖ה בֵּינֵיהֶֽם
she/it_was (Some words not found in UHB: stretches_out Tsiyyōn/(Zion) (in),hands_of,its not comfort to/for=her/it commanded YHWH of,Jacob [those]_around_of,him be]_his_foes_of,[will she/it_was Yerushalayim (into)_an,impure_thing between,them )
Here the author is speaking as if Jerusalem were an object of ritual abhorrence, something that the surrounding nations treat as defiling and avoid. See the note on verse 8. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [Jerusalem has become something all the surrounding nations consider filthy]
OET-LV Tsiyyōn/(Zion) it_has_spread_out (in)_hands_of_its there_is_not a_comforter to/for_her/it YHWH he_has_commanded of_Yaˊₐqoⱱ/(Jacob) those_around_of_him be_his_foes_of_will Yərūshālaim/(Jerusalem) it_has_become (into)_an_impure_thing between_them.
OET (OET-RV) Tsiyon (Zion) has spread her hands wide—there is no comforter for her.
⇔ Yahweh commanded that those surrounding Ya’akov (Jacob) become his enemies.
⇔ Yerushalem (Jerusalem) has become filth in the middle of them.
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.