15:3 In their streets they wear sackcloth;
on their roofs and in their town squares
all of them wail,
they fall down weeping.
22:4 So I say:
“Don’t look at me! 1
I am weeping bitterly.
Don’t try 2 to console me
concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.” 3
22:12 At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning,
for shaved heads and sackcloth. 4
65:19 Jerusalem will bring me joy,
and my people will bring me happiness. 5
The sound of weeping or cries of sorrow
will never be heard in her again.
1 tn Heb “look away from me” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “don’t hurry” (so NCV).
3 tn Heb “the daughter of my people.” “Daughter” is here used metaphorically to express the speaker’s emotional attachment to his people, as well as their vulnerability and weakness.
4 tn Heb “for baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.” See the note at 15:2.
5 tn Heb “and I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be happy in my people.”