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 3 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V18 V19
OET-LV Courtiers_of_your are_like_locust and_officials_of_your are_like_a_locust_of locust[s] which_encamp in_walls in/on_day coldness the_sun it_rises and_it_flees and_not place_of_its where_are_they it_is_known.
OET (OET-RV) Your many guards are like locusts,
⇔ and you have a swarm of officials.
⇔ On a cold morning they settle on the walls,
⇔ but when the sun rises they fly away
⇔ to some place that nobody knows about.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / simile
מִנְּזָרַ֨יִךְ֙ כָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה וְטַפְסְרַ֖יִךְ כְּג֣וֹב גֹּבָ֑י
(Some words not found in UHB: courtiers_of,your [are]_like,locust and,officials_of,your [are]_like,a_locust_of locust [which],encamp in,walls in/on=day cold sun rises and,it_flees and=not knows place_of,its where_[are],they? )
The author is saying that the guards and generals are like locusts because they are unreliable and disloyal, just as locusts fly away when conditions change. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state that explicitly. Alternate translation: [Your guards and generals are as unreliable and disloyal as locusts]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
מִנְּזָרַ֨יִךְ֙ כָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה וְטַפְסְרַ֖יִךְ כְּג֣וֹב גֹּבָ֑י
(Some words not found in UHB: courtiers_of,your [are]_like,locust and,officials_of,your [are]_like,a_locust_of locust [which],encamp in,walls in/on=day cold sun rises and,it_flees and=not knows place_of,its where_[are],they? )
These two phrases mean basically the same thing. The second phrase emphasizes the meaning of the first by repeating the same idea with different words. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could combine the phrases as in the UST, or connect the phrases with a word other than and in order to show that the second phrase is repeating the first one, not saying something additional. Alternate translation: [Your guards are like the locust, indeed, your generals, like a swarm of locusts]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
וְטַפְסְרַ֖יִךְ כְּג֣וֹב גֹּבָ֑י
and,officials_of,your (Some words not found in UHB: courtiers_of,your [are]_like,locust and,officials_of,your [are]_like,a_locust_of locust [which],encamp in,walls in/on=day cold sun rises and,it_flees and=not knows place_of,its where_[are],they? )
The author is leaving out a word that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You could supply this word if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [and your generals are like a swarm of locusts]
Note 4 topic: writing-pronouns
וְנוֹדַ֔ד & מְקוֹמ֖וֹ
and,it_flees & place_of,its
The pronouns it and its here refer to the locust swarm. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use plural forms to refer to the locusts. Alternate translation: [and they fly away and their place]
OET-LV Courtiers_of_your are_like_locust and_officials_of_your are_like_a_locust_of locust[s] which_encamp in_walls in/on_day coldness the_sun it_rises and_it_flees and_not place_of_its where_are_they it_is_known.
OET (OET-RV) Your many guards are like locusts,
⇔ and you have a swarm of officials.
⇔ On a cold morning they settle on the walls,
⇔ but when the sun rises they fly away
⇔ to some place that nobody knows about.
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.