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Lamentations 5:3-5
New English Translation
Lamentations 5:3-5
New English Translation
3 We have become fatherless orphans;
our mothers have become widows.
4 We must pay money[a] for our own water;[b]
we must buy our own wood at a steep price.[c]
5 We are pursued—they are breathing down our necks;[d]
we are weary and have no rest.[e]
Footnotes
- Lamentations 5:4 tn Heb “silver.” The term “silver” is a synecdoche of the particular (= silver) for the general (= money).
- Lamentations 5:4 tn Heb “We drink our water for silver.”
- Lamentations 5:4 tn Heb “our wood comes for a price.”
- Lamentations 5:5 tn Heb “We are hard-driven on our necks.”
- Lamentations 5:5 sn For the theological allusion that goes beyond physical rest, see, e.g., Deut 12:10; 25:19; Josh 1:13; 11:23; 2 Sam 7:1, 11; 1 Chron 22:18; 2 Chron 14:6-7.
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