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39 lines
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## Why should I pardon these people ##
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Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that he has no reason to pardon these people. AT: "Because of the things that they do, I cannot pardon these people." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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## these people ##
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the people of Jerusalem
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## Your sons ##
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Yahweh is speaking to Jerusalem as though she were a woman who had children. AT: "The people of Jerusalem." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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## I fed them fully ##
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"I gave them everything they needed."
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## and took on the marks of a house of prostitution ##
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"and went in large groups to the houses of prostitutes"
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## in heat ##
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"that were ready to have sex" or "that were sexually aroused"
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## Each man neighed to his neighbor's wife ##
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Male horses neigh loudly to female horses when they want to have sex with them. AT: "Each man was trying to have sex with his neighbor's wife." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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## So should I not punish them ##
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Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that the things that they are doing are so bad that he will no have mercy and stop himself from punishing them. AT: "Because they do these things, I will punish them."
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## This is Yahweh’s declaration ##
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See how you translated this in [Jeremiah 1:7](../01/07.md).
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## Should my heart not avenge itself on a nation that is like this? ##
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AT: "I will certainly get revenge for myself against a nation that is like this." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]]) |