OET interlinear PSA 149:7

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

נְ֭קָמָה בַּ⁠גּוֹיִ֑ם תּֽ֝וֹכֵחֹ֗ת בַּל־אֻמִּֽים

vengeance (Some words not found in UHB: for=doing vengeance on,nations punishment on peoples )

See how your translation team has decided to represent pairs of phrases in Hebrew poetry that mean basically the same thing. Alternate translation: [deserved punishment on all the foreign nations]

Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-logic-goal

לַ⁠עֲשׂ֣וֹת נְ֭קָמָה בַּ⁠גּוֹיִ֑ם

for=doing vengeance (Some words not found in UHB: for=doing vengeance on,nations punishment on peoples )

Here, to execute vengeance on the nations marks the purpose of the activities described in the previous verses. Use a connector in your language that makes it clear that this is the purpose. Alternate translation: [in order to execute vengeance on the nations]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

תּֽ֝וֹכֵחֹ֗ת בַּל־אֻמִּֽים

punishment (Some words not found in UHB: for=doing vengeance on,nations punishment on peoples )

The psalmist is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [to execute punishments on the peoples]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

נְ֭קָמָה בַּ⁠גּוֹיִ֑ם תּֽ֝וֹכֵחֹ֗ת

vengeance (Some words not found in UHB: for=doing vengeance on,nations punishment on peoples )

If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of vengeance and punishments, you could express the same ideas in other ways. Alternate translation: [to avenge on the nations, to punish the peoples]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet

לַ⁠עֲשׂ֣וֹת נְ֭קָמָה בַּ⁠גּוֹיִ֑ם תּֽ֝וֹכֵחֹ֗ת בַּל־אֻמִּֽים

for=doing vengeance (Some words not found in UHB: for=doing vengeance on,nations punishment on peoples )

The terms nations and peoples mean similar things. The psalmist is using the two terms together for emphasis. If it would be clearer for your readers, you could express the emphasis with a single phrase. Alternate translation: [to execute vengeance and punishment on all the foreign nations]