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 Lam C1 C2 C3 C4
Lam 5 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22
OET (OET-RV) ⇔ The elders no longer make decisions at the city gate,
⇔ ≈ The young men have stopped their music.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
זְקֵנִים֙ מִשַּׁ֣עַר שָׁבָ֔תוּ
elders (Some words not found in UHB: elders from_[the],gate left young_men from,music_of,their )
Here, the gate represents the place where civic leaders gathered to make decisions and administer justice. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: [Elders have ceased from making decisions]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / merism
זְקֵנִים֙ מִשַּׁ֣עַר שָׁבָ֔תוּ בַּחוּרִ֖ים
elders (Some words not found in UHB: elders from_[the],gate left young_men from,music_of,their )
The writer is referring to all of the people by naming two major components, Elders and young men. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: [Everyone has stopped gathering at the gates, all the people have withdrawn]
OET (OET-RV) ⇔ The elders no longer make decisions at the city gate,
⇔ ≈ The young men have stopped their music.
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.