Lamentations 3:46-48

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Lamentations 3:46 tn Heb “open wide their mouths.”
2. Lamentations 3:47 tn The similar sounding nouns פַּחַד וָפַחַת (pakhad vafakhat, “panic and pitfall”) are an example of paronomasia.
3. Lamentations 3:47 tn Similar to the paronomasia in the preceding line, the words הַשֵּׁאת וְהַשָּׁבֶר (hasheʾt v^ehashaver, “devastation and destruction”) form an example of alliteration: the beginning of the words sound alike.
4. Lamentations 3:48 tn Heb “canals.” The phrase “canals of water” (eye water = tears) is an example of hyperbole. The English idiom “streams of tears” is also hyperbolic.
5. Lamentations 3:48 tn Heb “my eyes flow down with canals of water.”
6. Lamentations 3:48 tn Heb “the daughter of my people,” or “the Daughter, my people.”
7. Lamentations 3:48 tn Heb “because of the destruction of [the daughter of my people].”