4:7 You make me happier 1
than those who have abundant grain and wine. 2
60:3 You have made your people experience hard times; 3
you have made us drink intoxicating wine. 4
1 tn Heb “you place joy in my heart.” Another option is to understand the perfect verbal form as indicating certitude, “you will make me happier.”
2 tn Heb “from (i.e., more than) the time (when) their grain and their wine are abundant.”
3 tn Heb “you have caused your people to see [what is] hard.”
4 tn Heb “wine of staggering,” that is, intoxicating wine that makes one stagger in drunkenness. Intoxicating wine is here an image of divine judgment that makes its victims stagger like drunkards. See Isa 51:17-23.