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Lamentations 3:44-46
New English Translation
Lamentations 3:44-46
New English Translation
44 You shrouded yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer could get through.
45 You make us like filthy scum[a]
in the estimation[b] of the nations.
פ (Pe)
46 All our enemies have gloated over us;[c]
Footnotes
- 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.”
- Lamentations 3:46 tn Heb “open wide their mouths.”
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