Lamentations 3:31

כ (Kaf)

3:31 For the Lord 1  will not

reject us forever. 2 

Lamentations 3:46-47

פ (Pe)

3:46 All our enemies have gloated over us; 3 

3:47 Panic and pitfall 4  have come upon us,

devastation and destruction. 5 

1 tc The MT reads אֲדֹנָי (’adonay, “the Lord”) here rather than יהוה (YHWH, “the Lord”). See the tc note at 1:14.

2 tn The verse is unusually short and something unrecoverable may be missing.

3 tn Heb “open wide their mouths.”

4 tn The similar sounding nouns פַּחַד וָפַחַת (pakhad vafakhat, “panic and pitfall”) are an example of paronomasia.

5 tn Similar to the paronomasia in the preceding line, the words הַשֵּׁאת וְהַשָּׁבֶר (hashe’t vÿhashaver, “devastation and destruction”) form an example of alliteration: the beginning of the words sound alike.