8:11 They offer only superficial help
for the hurt my dear people 1 have suffered. 2
They say, “Everything will be all right!”
But everything is not all right! 3
8:21 My heart is crushed because my dear people 4 are being crushed. 5
I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay. 6
1 tn Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there.
2 tn Heb “They heal the wound of my people lightly.”
3 tn Heb “They say, ‘Peace! Peace!’ and there is no peace!”
4 tn Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there.
5 tn Heb “Because of the crushing of the daughter of my people I am crushed.”
6 tn Heb “I go about in black [i.e., mourning clothes]. Dismay has seized me.”