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OET (OET-LV) And the merchants of_the earth are_weeping and are_mourning for her, because the cargo of_them no_one is_buying no_longer,
OET (OET-RV) The merchants on the earth will weep and mourn for her, because no one buys their goods anymore—
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet
κλαίουσιν καὶ πενθοῦσιν
/are/_weeping and /are/_mourning
The terms weep and mourn mean similar things. John 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: “weep bitterly”
18:1-24 This chapter contains seven poetic responses to the fall of Babylon (or Rome; see study note on 17:5).
OET (OET-LV) And the merchants of_the earth are_weeping and are_mourning for her, because the cargo of_them no_one is_buying no_longer,
OET (OET-RV) The merchants on the earth will weep and mourn for her, because no one buys their goods anymore—
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.