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OET (OET-LV) And see, there_are last ones who will_be first ones, and there_are first ones who will_be last ones.
OET (OET-RV) so listen: the last people will be the first ones, and the first ones will end up last.”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
καὶ ἰδοὺ
and behold
Jesus uses this expression to call attention to what he is about to say. Alternate translation: “Indeed”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
εἰσὶν ἔσχατοι οἳ ἔσονται πρῶτοι
˱there˲_are last_‹ones› who will_be first_‹ones›
Being last represents having few privileges, being first represents having many privileges. Alternate translation: “people who are not privileged now will come to have great privileges”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
ἔσχατοι
last_‹ones›
Jesus is using the adjective last as a noun in order to indicate a group of people. ULT adds the word ones to show that. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you could translate this term with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: “people who are not privileged”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
εἰσὶν πρῶτοι οἳ ἔσονται ἔσχατοι
˱there˲_are ˱there˲_are first_‹ones› who will_be last_‹ones›
Being first represents having many privileges, and being last represents having few privileges. Alternate translation: “people who are greatly privileged now will lose those privileges”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
πρῶτοι
first_‹ones›
Jesus is using the adjective first as a noun in order to indicate a group of people. ULT adds the word ones to show that. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you could translate this term with an equivalent phrases. Alternate translation: “people who are greatly privileged”
OET (OET-LV) And see, there_are last ones who will_be first ones, and there_are first ones who will_be last ones.
OET (OET-RV) so listen: the last people will be the first ones, and the first ones will end up last.”
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 SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.