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
Nah 2 V1 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God · Jacob (Israel)
OET-LV (NAH 2:3) [fn] If/because YHWH he_will_restore DOM the_majesty_of Yaˊₐqoⱱ/(Jacob) like_the_majesty_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) if/because they_have_laid_waste_to_them those_who_lay_waste and_their_vine_of_branches they_have_destroyed.
2:3 Note: KJB: Nah.2.2
OET (OET-RV) Yahweh is restoring Ya’akov’s (Jacob’s) greatness,
⇔ like Yisrael’s (Israel’s) greatness before,
⇔ even though the invaders took their valuables and destroyed their vineyards.
Note 1 topic: translate-tense
שָׁ֤ב
(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when restore YHWH DOM majesty_of Yaakob like,the_majesty_of Yisrael that/for/because/then/when they,have_laid_waste_to_them ravagers and,their_vine_of,branches ruined )
The author uses the past tense here in order to refer to something that will certainly happen in the future. If it would not be natural to do that in your language, you could use the future tense. Alternate translation: [will restore]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
שָׁ֤ב יְהוָה֙ אֶת־גְּא֣וֹן יַעֲקֹ֔ב כִּגְא֖וֹן יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל
(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when restore YHWH DOM majesty_of Yaakob like,the_majesty_of Yisrael that/for/because/then/when they,have_laid_waste_to_them ravagers and,their_vine_of,branches ruined )
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of majesty, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [Yahweh has made Jacob great again; he has made Israel great as well]
Note 3 topic: writing-poetry
בְקָקוּם֙ בֹּֽקְקִ֔ים
they,have_laid_waste_to_them (Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when restore YHWH DOM majesty_of Yaakob like,the_majesty_of Yisrael that/for/because/then/when they,have_laid_waste_to_them ravagers and,their_vine_of,branches ruined )
Here, plunderers plundered is an emphatic construction that uses a verb and its object that come from the same root. You may be able to use the same construction in your language to express the meaning here. Alternatively, your language may have another way of showing the emphasis.
OET-LV (NAH 2:3) [fn] If/because YHWH he_will_restore DOM the_majesty_of Yaˊₐqoⱱ/(Jacob) like_the_majesty_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) if/because they_have_laid_waste_to_them those_who_lay_waste and_their_vine_of_branches they_have_destroyed.
2:3 Note: KJB: Nah.2.2
OET (OET-RV) Yahweh is restoring Ya’akov’s (Jacob’s) greatness,
⇔ like Yisrael’s (Israel’s) greatness before,
⇔ even though the invaders took their valuables and destroyed their vineyards.
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.
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