1:22 Your 1 silver has become scum, 2
your beer is diluted with water. 3
24:9 They no longer sing and drink wine; 4
the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.
1 tn The pronoun is feminine singular; personified Jerusalem (see v. 21) is addressed.
2 tn Or “dross.” The word refers to the scum or impurites floating on the top of melted metal.
3 sn The metaphors of silver becoming impure and beer being watered down picture the moral and ethical degeneration that had occurred in Jerusalem.
4 tn Heb “with a song they do not drink wine.”