Judges 5:3

5:3 Hear, O kings!

Pay attention, O rulers!

I will sing to the Lord! 1 

I will sing 2  to the Lord God of Israel!

Judges 10:16

10:16 They threw away the foreign gods they owned 3  and worshiped 4  the Lord. Finally the Lord grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much. 5 

Judges 21:2

21:2 So the people came to Bethel 6  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. 7 

1 tn Heb “I, to the Lord, I, I will sing!” The first singular personal pronoun is used twice, even though a first person finite verbal form is employed.

2 tn Or “make music.”

3 tn Heb “from their midst.”

4 tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

5 tn Heb “And his spirit grew short [i.e., impatient] with the suffering of Israel.” The Hebrew noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) also appears as the subject of the verb קָצַר (qatsar) in Num 21:4 (the Israelites grow impatient wandering in the wilderness), Judg 16:16 (Samson grows impatient with Delilah’s constant nagging), and Zech 11:8 (Zechariah grows impatient with the three negligent “shepherds”).

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7 tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.