InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Zec C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C12 C13 C14
Zec 11 V1 V2 V3 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17
People tagged in the matching LV passage: God
OET (OET-RV) My god Yahweh says: “Be like a shepherd who’s watching over the flock that have been marked to be slaughtered.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
רְעֵ֖ה
shepherd
Yahweh is speaking of leading and caring for the people as if that task were to Shepherd a flock of sheep. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [Take care of]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
אֶת צֹ֥אן הַהֲרֵגָֽה
DOM flock_of_sheep/goats of_(the),slaughter
Yahweh is speaking of the people of Israel as if they were a flock of sheep. Your language may have a comparable expression that you can use in your translation, or you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [the people who are marked for slaughter]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / possession
אֶת צֹ֥אן הַהֲרֵגָֽה
DOM flock_of_sheep/goats of_(the),slaughter
Yahweh is using the possessive form to describe a flock that is characterized by slaughter, that is, a flock that is destined to be slaughtered. If a speaker of your language would not use the possessive form for this, you could express this idea in another way. Alternate translation: [the flock that is destined for slaughter]
OET (OET-RV) My god Yahweh says: “Be like a shepherd who’s watching over the flock that have been marked to be slaughtered.
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 Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.