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OET (OET-LV) And in the days those, will_be_seeking the people the death, and by_no_means not they_will_be_finding it, and they_will_be_desiring to_die_off, but is_fleeing the death from them.
OET (OET-RV) People in those days will try to die, but won’t be able to—they will long to die, but death will run away from them.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις
in ¬the days those
John is using the term days to refer to a specific time. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “at that time”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism
ζητήσουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι τὸν θάνατον, καὶ οὐ μὴ εὑρήσουσιν αὐτόν, καὶ ἐπιθυμήσουσιν ἀποθανεῖν, καὶ φεύγει ὁ θάνατος ἀπ’ αὐτῶν
/will_be/_seeking ¬the people ¬the death and by_no_means not ˱they˲_/will_be/_finding it and ˱they˲_/will_be/_desiring /to/_die_off but /is/_fleeing ¬the death from them
These two phrases mean similar things. John is using repetition to emphasize the idea that the phrases express. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could combine the phrases. Alternate translation: “even though people will want very much to die, they will not be able to die”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
τὸν θάνατον
¬the death
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of death, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “to die”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
φεύγει ὁ θάνατος ἀπ’ αὐτῶν
/is/_fleeing ¬the death from them
John is speaking figuratively of death as if it were a living thing that could run away or flee. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “they will not be able to die”
9:1-21 The fifth and sixth trumpets demonstrate how God’s judgment affects the people of the world and detail how futile it is to resist God. While these judgments should lead to repentance, they do not. Sin has such control over people that they choose to worship the evil forces that torture and murder them rather than repent and turn to God.
OET (OET-LV) And in the days those, will_be_seeking the people the death, and by_no_means not they_will_be_finding it, and they_will_be_desiring to_die_off, but is_fleeing the death from them.
OET (OET-RV) People in those days will try to die, but won’t be able to—they will long to die, but death will run away from them.
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.