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OET (OET-LV) Kūsh strength_her and_Miʦrayim and_without an_end Fūţ and_Libya they_were in/on/at/with_allies_your.
OET (OET-RV) Ethopia and Egypt were her strength,
⇔ and her strength had no limit.
⇔ Put and Libya were her allies.
(Occurrence 0) Cush and Egypt were her strength
(Some words not found in UHB: Kush strength,her and=Miʦrayim and,without limit Fūţ and,Libya they_were in/on/at/with,allies,your )
Alternate translation: “Ethiopia and Egypt strengthened her” or “Cush and Egypt were her allies”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
(Occurrence 0) there was no end to it
(Some words not found in UHB: Kush strength,her and=Miʦrayim and,without limit Fūţ and,Libya they_were in/on/at/with,allies,your )
The word “it” refers to the “strength” that Cush and Egypt gave to Thebes. That there was no end to it is a hyperbole that expresses the great amount of strength. Alternate translation: “their strength was very great”
Note 2 topic: translate-names
(Occurrence 0) Put and Libya
(Some words not found in UHB: Kush strength,her and=Miʦrayim and,without limit Fūţ and,Libya they_were in/on/at/with,allies,your )
These are the names of places in northern Africa that were close to Thebes.
3:9-10 Thebes fell to the Assyrians under King Ashurbanipal in 663 BC. Before Ashurbanipal’s victory, Thebes had seemed to have unconquerable defenses, as well as the help of all Egypt and its allies: Ethiopia, Put (perhaps the fabled land of Punt, located near what is now coastal Somalia), and Libya. None of these, however, had effectively protected Thebes.
• babies were dashed to death: Ancient conquerors had the heinous practice of exterminating the infants of their enemies in this way (2 Kgs 8:12; Ps 137:9; Isa 13:16, 18).
• Soldiers threw dice for the spoils of war, while the leaders of the conquered people were bound in chains (see 2 Kgs 25:7; Jer 40:1, 4; Joel 3:3; Obad 1:11).
OET (OET-LV) Kūsh strength_her and_Miʦrayim and_without an_end Fūţ and_Libya they_were in/on/at/with_allies_your.
OET (OET-RV) Ethopia and Egypt were her strength,
⇔ and her strength had no limit.
⇔ Put and Libya were her allies.
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.