4:18 “The way you have lived and the things you have done 1
will bring this on you.
This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. 2
The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.” 3
30:15 Why do you complain about your injuries,
that your pain is incurable?
I have done all this to you
because your wickedness is so great
and your sin is so much.
1 tn Heb “Your way and your deeds.”
2 tn Heb “How bitter!”
3 tn Heb “Indeed, it reaches to your heart.” The subject must be the pain alluded to in the last half of the preceding line; the verb is masculine, agreeing with the adjective translated “painful.” The only other possible antecedent “punishment” is feminine.