LAM 2:12 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) They ask their mothers, “Where’s our food and drink?”
⇔ when they faint like the slain in the streets of the city,
⇔ when they die slowly in their mothers’ laps.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX ΛΑΜΕΔ. Ταῖς μητράσιν αὐτῶν εἶπαν, ποῦ σῖτος, καὶ οἶνος; ἐν τῷ ἐκλύεσθαι αὐτοὺς ὡς τραυματίας ἐν πλατείαις πόλεως, ἐν τῷ ἐκχεῖσθαι ψυχὰς αὐτῶν εἰς κόλπον μητέρων αὐτῶν.
(LAMED. Tais maʸtrasin autōn eipan, pou sitos, kai oinos; en tōi ekluesthai autous hōs traumatias en plateiais poleōs, en tōi ekⱪeisthai psuⱪas autōn eis kolpon maʸterōn autōn. )

BrTr Lamed. They said to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? while they fainted like wounded men in the streets of the city, while their souls were poured out into their mother's bosom.

ULT They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?”
⇔ when they faint like the slain in the streets of the city,
⇔ when their lives are poured out in the lap of their mothers.

UST They cry out to their mothers,
⇔ “We need something to eat and drink!”
⇔ They collapse like wounded men
⇔ in the streets of the city.
⇔ They slowly die
⇔ in the arms of their mothers.

BSB They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
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OEB To their mothers they keep on saying,
⇔ "O where is our bread?"
⇔ Like the wounded they lie in a swoon
⇔ On the streets of the city,
⇔ As they pour out their lives (to the death)
⇔ On the breasts of their mothers.

WEBBE ⇔ They ask their mothers,
⇔ “Where is grain and wine?”
⇔ when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,
⇔ when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Children say to their mothers,
⇔ “Where are food and drink?”
⇔ They faint like a wounded warrior
⇔ in the city squares.
⇔ They die slowly
⇔ in their mothers’ arms.

LSV To their mothers they say,
“Where [are] grain and wine?” In their becoming feeble as a pierced one
In the broad places of the city,
In their soul pouring itself out into the bosom of their mothers.

FBV They cry out to their mothers, “We need food and drink!”[fn] fainting in the city streets as if they're wounded, their lives fading away in their mothers' arms.

2:12 “We need food and drink!” literally, “Where is the grain and wine?” an unlikely diet for infants.

T4T ⇔ They cry out to their mothers,
⇔ “We need [RHQ] something to eat and drink!”
⇔ They faint like wounded men
⇔ in the streets of the city.
⇔ They slowly die
⇔ in the arms of their mothers.

LEB No LEB LAM book available

BBE They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.

Moff No Moff LAM book available

JPS They say to their mothers: 'Where is corn and wine?' when they swoon as the wounded in the broad places of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

ASV They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine?
⇔ When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,
⇔ When their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

DRA Lamed. They said to their mothers: Where is corn and wine? when they fainted away as the wounded in the streets of the city: when they breathed out their souls in the bosoms of their mothers.

YLT To their mothers they say, 'Where [are] corn and wine?' In their becoming feeble as a pierced one In the broad places of the city, In their soul pouring itself out into the bosom of their mothers.

Drby They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city; when they pour out their soul into their mothers' bosom.

RV They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

SLT To their mothers will they say, Where the grain and wine? in their languishing as the wounded in the broad places of the city, in the pouring out of their soul into their mothers bosom.

Wbstr They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

KJB-1769 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

KJB-1611 They say to their mothers, Where is corne and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the citie, when their soule was powred out into their mothers bosome.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps No Bshps LAM book available

Gnva They haue sayd to their mothers, Where is bread and drinke? when they swooned as the wounded in the streetes of the citie, and whe they gaue vp the ghost in their mothers bosome.
(They have said to their mothers, Where is bread and drink? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, and when they gave up the ghost in their mothers bosom. )

Cvdl No Cvdl LAM book available

Wycl No Wycl LAM book available

Luth No Luth LAM book available

ClVg Lamed Matribus suis dixerunt: Ubi est triticum et vinum? cum deficerent quasi vulnerati in plateis civitatis, cum exhalarent animas suas in sinu matrum suarum.
(Lamed Matribus to_his_own they_said: Where it_is triticum and wine? when/with to_failnt as_if wounded(pl) in/into/on the_streets of_the_city, when/with exhalarent souls their_own in/into/on pocket matrum of_their_own. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT LAM book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

(Occurrence 0) Where is grain and wine?

(Some words not found in UHB: to,mothers_of,their say where bread and,wine in/on/at/with,faint,they like_the,wounded in/on/at/with,streets_of (a)_city in/on/at/with,poured_out life_of,their to/towards bosom_of mothers'_of,their )

This rhetorical question is used as a request for something to eat. The children are telling their mother that they are hungry. The phrase “grain and wine” represents food and drink. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this question as a statement. Alternate translation: “Give us something to eat and drink.” (See also: figs-rquestion)

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

(Occurrence 0) as they faint like a wounded man

This speaks of the children fainting from hunger and thirst in the same way that a wounded man faints.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) their lives are poured out on the bosom of their mothers

This speaks of the children dying as if their lives were a liquid that was being poured out. Alternate translation: “they slowly die in the arms of their mothers”

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