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Lamentations 3:43-45
New English Translation
Lamentations 3:43-45
New English Translation
ס (Samek)
43 You shrouded yourself[a] with anger and then pursued us;
you killed without mercy.
44 You shrouded yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer could get through.
45 You make us like filthy scum[b]
in the estimation[c] of the nations.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:43 tn Heb “covered.” The object must be supplied either from the next line (“covered yourself”) or from the end of this line (“covered us”).
- Lamentations 3:45 tn Heb “offscouring and refuse.” The two nouns סְחִי וּמָאוֹס (sekhi umaʾos) probably form a nominal hendiadys in which the first noun functions as an adjective and the second retains its full nominal sense: “filthy refuse,” i.e., “filthy scum.”
- Lamentations 3:45 tn Heb “in the midst of.”
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