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OET (OET-LV) the_hands_of women compassionate they_have_boiled children_of_their_own they_have_been for_eating for_them in_the_brokenness_of the_daughter_of my_people_of_my.
OET (OET-RV) The hands of compassionate women boiled their children.
⇔ They became a meal for them during the destruction of my people.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
יְדֵ֗י נָשִׁים֙ רַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹת
hands_of (Some words not found in UHB: hands_of women/wives compassionate cooked children_of,their_own they_were for,eating for,them in,the_brokenness_of daughter_of my_people_of,my )
Here, The hands of compassionate women represents the women themselves and their actions. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: [Compassionate women themselves]
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
הָי֤וּ לְבָרוֹת֙ לָ֔מוֹ
they_were for,eating for,them
The pronoun they refers to the children, while the pronoun them refers to the women.
OET (OET-LV) the_hands_of women compassionate they_have_boiled children_of_their_own they_have_been for_eating for_them in_the_brokenness_of the_daughter_of my_people_of_my.
OET (OET-RV) The hands of compassionate women boiled their children.
⇔ They became a meal for them during the destruction of my people.
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.