80:5 You have given them tears as food; 1
you have made them drink tears by the measure. 2
6:6 I am exhausted as I groan;
all night long I drench my bed in tears; 3
my tears saturate the cushion beneath me. 4
1 tn Heb “you have fed them the food of tears.”
2 tn Heb “[by] the third part [of a measure].” The Hebrew term שָׁלִישׁ (shalish, “third part [of a measure]”) occurs only here and in Isa 40:12.
3 tn Heb “I cause to swim through all the night my bed.”
4 tn Heb “with my tears my bed I flood/melt.”