¹ tn Or “road.”

² tn Heb “my roads.”

¹ tn Heb “all the passersby on the road.”

¹ tn Grk “has come to me from the road.”

² tn Heb “the one passing by on the road ceases.”

¹ sn A level road. See Jer 31:9.

¹ tn Heb “Where is the road we will go up?”

¹ tn Heb “and overtake him, for the road is long.”

² tn Heb “roads [are] in their heart[s].” The roads are here those that lead to Zion (see v. 7).

¹ tn Heb “roads of Zion.” The noun צִיּוֹן (tsiyyon, Zion) is a genitive of direction (termination) following the construct noun, meaning “roads to Zion.”

¹ tc The MT divides the verse so the line ends “on a wasteland of a road.” The LXX divides the line before “road” as in the translation.

⁶ sn The concluding note about the road appears to be a parenthetical note by the author.

¹ tn Heb “a way they do not know” (so NASB); NRSV “a road they do not know.”

¹ tn The interrogative with דֶרֶךְ (derekh) means “in what road” or “in what direction.”

¹ tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”

³ sn The descendants of Riphath lived in a district north of the road from Haran to Carchemish.

⁵ tn The term πλατεῖα (plateia) refers to the “broad street,” so this refers to the main roads of the town.

¹ tn Or “stumbling block.” The Hebrew term refers to an obstacle in the road in Lev 19:14.

¹ tn Heb “and the ones making their paths twisted.” A sinful lifestyle is compared to a twisting, winding road.

² tn Heb “and look, all the road was full of clothes and equipment that Syria had thrown away in their haste.”