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OET (OET-LV) from afar having_stood, because_of the fear of_the torment of_her saying:
Woe, woe, the city the great Babulōn/(Bāⱱel?
), the city the strong.
Because in_one hour came the judgment of_you.
OET (OET-RV) In their fear they’ll stand back at a distance and say,
⇔ “The famous city’s end won’t be good,
⇔ the powerful city of Babylon.
⇔ Because your judgment has come all at once.”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
διὰ τὸν φόβον τοῦ βασανισμοῦ αὐτῆς
because_of the fear ˱of˲_the torment ˱of˲_her
John is referring to the fire that is burning up and tormenting Babylon by association with the torment itself. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “because they are afraid of the fire that is tormenting her”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / reduplication
οὐαὶ, οὐαί
woe woe
As the General Notes to this chapter discuss, the speakers are repeating the word woe for emphasis. If it would not be natural in your language to repeat a word like that, you could express the emphasis in another way, for example, by using a different expression and including the word “very,” as the UST does.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / apostrophe
ὅτι μιᾷ ὥρᾳ ἦλθεν ἡ κρίσις σου
because ˱in˲_one hour came the judgment ˱of˲_you
The kings are speaking directly to the city of Babylon even though they know that the city cannot hear them. They are doing this to show in a very strong way to the people who can hear them, their fellow kings, how they feel about what is happening to Babylon. If someone speaking your language would not do this, you could translate this as the merchants speaking to one another about Babylon rather than to Babylon. Alternate translation: “For in one hour her judgment has come”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
μιᾷ ὥρᾳ
˱in˲_one hour
As the General Notes to this chapter discuss, in the ancient world, an hour was the shortest time span that people envisioned. In contexts such as this one, the term does not mean a literal hour of sixty minutes. It means the shortest time imaginable. Alternate translation: “in such a short time”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἦλθεν ἡ κρίσις σου
came the judgment ˱of˲_you
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of judgment, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “God has judged you”
18:10 With a terrified sense of separation and abandonment (see 18:15, 17), the kings stand at a distance in a futile attempt to avoid punishment.
OET (OET-LV) from afar having_stood, because_of the fear of_the torment of_her saying:
Woe, woe, the city the great Babulōn/(Bāⱱel?
), the city the strong.
Because in_one hour came the judgment of_you.
OET (OET-RV) In their fear they’ll stand back at a distance and say,
⇔ “The famous city’s end won’t be good,
⇔ the powerful city of Babylon.
⇔ Because your judgment has come all at once.”
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 SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.