1:16 Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love; 1
shave your foreheads as bald 2 as an eagle, 3
for they are taken from you into exile.
7:19 You will once again 4 have mercy on us;
you will conquer 5 our evil deeds;
you will hurl our 6 sins into the depths of the sea. 7
1 tn Heb “over the sons of your delight.”
2 tn Heb “make wide your baldness.”
3 tn Or “a vulture” (cf. NIV, TEV); CEV “a buzzard.” The Hebrew term נֶשֶׁר (nesher) refers to the griffon vulture or eagle.
4 tn The verb יָשׁוּב (yashuv, “he will return”) is here used adverbially in relation to the following verb, indicating that the
5 tn Some prefer to read יִכְבֹּס (yikhbos, “he will cleanse”; see HALOT 459 s.v. כבס pi). If the MT is taken as it stands, sin is personified as an enemy that the
6 tn Heb “their sins,” but the final mem (ם) may be enclitic rather than a pronominal suffix. In this case the suffix from the preceding line (“our”) may be understood as doing double duty.
7 sn In this metaphor the