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15 Thus I came to the exiles who lived at Tel-abib[a] by the river Chebar; and there where they dwelt, I stayed among them distraught for seven days.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:15 Tel-abib: one of the sites where the exiles were settled, probably near Nippur.

15 I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Aviv near the Kebar River.(A) And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days(B)—deeply distressed.

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48 [a]My eyes stream with tears over the destruction
    of the daughter of my people.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:48–51 These verses are more appropriate on the lips of the poet, who speaks of “my city” (v. 51). Daughters of my city: here as elsewhere “daughter” may refer to villages dependent on a larger city.

48 Streams of tears(A) flow from my eyes(B)
    because my people are destroyed.(C)

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