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 Neh C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C10 C11 C12 C13
Neh 9 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V27 V28 V29 V30 V31 V32 V33 V34 V35 V36 V37 V38
OET-LV And_they_were_disobedient and_they_rebelled on/over_you(fs) and_they_threw DOM law_of_your behind back_of_their and_DOM prophets_of_your they_killed who they_had_warned (in)_them to_bring_them_back to_you and_they_made blasphemies great.
OET (OET-RV) “But they disobeyed and rebelled against you, and they turned their backs on your instructions. They killed your prophets who testified against them in order to bring them back to you and they badly insulted you.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet
וַיַּמְר֨וּ וַֽיִּמְרְד֜וּ בָּ֗ךְ
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_were_disobedient and,they_rebelled on/over=you(fs) and,they_threw DOM law_of,your after back_of,their and=DOM prophets_of,your killed which/who warned (in),them to,bring,them_back to,you and=they_made blasphemies great )
Disobeyed and rebelled mean similar things. The Levites use them together to emphasize how serious an offense it was for the Israelites to turn against Yahweh after he had blessed them so greatly. If it would be helpful in your language, you could combine these words. Alternate translation: [they turned against you]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וַיַּשְׁלִ֤כוּ אֶת־תּוֹרָֽתְךָ֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י גַוָּ֔ם
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_were_disobedient and,they_rebelled on/over=you(fs) and,they_threw DOM law_of,your after back_of,their and=DOM prophets_of,your killed which/who warned (in),them to,bring,them_back to,you and=they_made blasphemies great )
The Levites are saying that the Israelites treated the law as if it were a worthless item that a person would toss away. Alternate translation: [They considered your law worthless and paid no attention to it]
הֵעִ֥ידוּ בָ֖ם
warned (in),them
Alternate translation: [warned them about all the wrong things they were doing]
Note 3 topic: translate-unknown
וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֔וּ נֶאָצ֖וֹת גְּדוֹלֹֽת
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_were_disobedient and,they_rebelled on/over=you(fs) and,they_threw DOM law_of,your after back_of,their and=DOM prophets_of,your killed which/who warned (in),them to,bring,them_back to,you and=they_made blasphemies great )
As in 9:18, blasphemy means to worship as divine or give honor to something other than God. This is likely a reference to the way the Israelites started worshiping other gods. (That is why the prophets needed to try to “bring them back” to Yahweh.) Alternate translation: [they worshiped other gods]
OET-LV And_they_were_disobedient and_they_rebelled on/over_you(fs) and_they_threw DOM law_of_your behind back_of_their and_DOM prophets_of_your they_killed who they_had_warned (in)_them to_bring_them_back to_you and_they_made blasphemies great.
OET (OET-RV) “But they disobeyed and rebelled against you, and they turned their backs on your instructions. They killed your prophets who testified against them in order to bring them back to you and they badly insulted you.
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.