OET interlinear ROM 4:7

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotemarks

μακάριοι, ὧν ἀφέθησαν αἱ ἀνομίαι καὶ ὧν ἐπεκαλύφθησαν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι

blessed_‹are_they› ˱of˲_whom /were/_forgiven their lawlessness and ˱of˲_whom /were/_covered-up their sins

This verse is the beginning of a quotation from Psalm 31:1–2. It may be helpful to your readers to indicate this with an opening quotation mark or with whatever other punctuation or convention your language uses to indicate the beginning of a quotation.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

μακάριοι, ὧν ἀφέθησαν αἱ ἀνομίαι καὶ ὧν ἐπεκαλύφθησαν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι

blessed_‹are_they› ˱of˲_whom /were/_forgiven their lawlessness and ˱of˲_whom /were/_covered-up their sins

These two clauses mean the same thing. Paul says the same thing twice, in slightly different ways, to show how Blessed these people are. If it would be helpful in your language, you could combine the phrases into one. Alternate translation: “How blessed are those people whom God forgives completely for all their sins”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

ὧν & αἱ ἀνομίαι & ὧν & αἱ ἁμαρτίαι

˱of˲_whom & their lawlessness & ˱of˲_whom & their sins

If your language does not use abstract nouns for the ideas of lawless deeds and sins, you could express the same ideas in another way. Alternate translation: “the lawless things they have done … the sins they have committed”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

ἀφέθησαν & ἐπεκαλύφθησαν

/were/_forgiven & /were/_covered-up

If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. If you must state who did the action, Paul implies that “God” did it. Alternate translation: “God forgives … God covers”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

ὧν ἐπεκαλύφθησαν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι

˱of˲_whom ˱of˲_whom /were/_covered-up their sins

Paul quotes David leaving out some of the words that a clause would need in many languages to be complete. If it would be helpful in your language, you could supply these words from the previous clause. Alternate translation: “blessed are those whose sins have been covered”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ἐπεκαλύφθησαν

/were/_covered-up

Paul quotes David using covered to refer to God forgiving sins as if he covers sins so that he no longer sees them. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “have been forgiven”