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OET (OET-LV) And they_throw dust on the heads of_them, and they_cried_out, weeping and mourning saying:
Woe, woe, the city the great, in which became_rich all the ones having the ships in the sea by the wealth of_her.
Because in_one hour she_was_desolated.
OET (OET-RV) Then they’ll throw dust on their heads (a Hebrew sign of mourning) and weep and mourn and cry out, “That incredible city where every ship owner became wealthy from valuable trade with her—she’s been destroyed in a single hour.”
Note 1 topic: translate-symaction
ἔβαλον χοῦν ἐπὶ τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν
˱they˲_cast dust on the heads ˱of˲_them
The sea workers threw dust on their heads as a symbolic action to show how distressed they were that Babylon had been destroyed. If this would not be clear to your readers, you could explain the significance of this action. Alternate translation: “they threw dust on their heads to show how distressed they were”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet
κλαίοντες καὶ πενθοῦντες
weeping and mourning
The terms weeping and mourning 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: “weeping bitterly”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo
τὰ πλοῖα ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ
the ships in the sea
It might seem that the expression ships in the sea contains extra information that would be unnatural to express in your language. If so, you could shorten it. Alternate translation: “ships”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἠρημώθη
˱she˲_/was/_desolated
If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. If you need to say who did the action, the context suggests that it was God. Alternate translation: “God has destroyed her”
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 they_throw dust on the heads of_them, and they_cried_out, weeping and mourning saying:
Woe, woe, the city the great, in which became_rich all the ones having the ships in the sea by the wealth of_her.
Because in_one hour she_was_desolated.
OET (OET-RV) Then they’ll throw dust on their heads (a Hebrew sign of mourning) and weep and mourn and cry out, “That incredible city where every ship owner became wealthy from valuable trade with her—she’s been destroyed in a single hour.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.