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Lamentations 3:45-47
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Lamentations 3:45-47
New English Translation
פ (Pe)
46 All our enemies have gloated over us;[c]
47 panic and pitfall[d] have come upon us,
devastation and destruction.[e]
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.”
- Lamentations 3:47 tn The similar sounding nouns פַּחַד וָפַחַת (pakhad vafakhat, “panic and pitfall”) are an example of paronomasia.
- Lamentations 3:47 tn Similar to the paronomasia in the preceding line, the words הַשֵּׁאת וְהַשָּׁבֶר (hasheʾt vehashaver, “devastation and destruction”) form an example of alliteration: the beginning of the words sound alike.
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