² tn Heb “How bitter!”

² tn Heb “a bitter word.”

¹ tn Heb “bitter of soul.”

¹ tn Heb “bitterness of its soul.”

⁴ sn The name Mara means “bitter.”

¹ tn Heb “Look, for peace bitterness was to me bitter”; NAB “thus is my bitterness transformed into peace.”

¹ tn Heb “and they will weep concerning you with bitterness of soul, (with) bitter mourning.”

⁶ tn Or “caused me to be very bitter”; NAB “has made it very bitter for me.”

² tn Heb “because of the bitterness of my soul.”

² tn The text literally has “and this [man] dies in soul of bitterness.” Some simply reverse it and translate “in the bitterness of soul.” The genitive “bitterness” may be an attribute adjective, “with a bitter soul.”

¹ tn Heb “her soul [i.e., ‘disposition’] is bitter.”

⁵ tn That is, terribly bitter (see the note on “Wormwood” earlier in this verse).

⁶ tn Grk “and many of the men died from these waters because they were bitter.”

¹ sn The place name Maroth sounds like the Hebrew word for “bitter.”

¹ tn Heb “wormwood” or “bitterness” (BDB 542 s.v. לַעֲנָה; HALOT 533 s.v. לַעֲנָה).

⁹ tn Heb “and she is bitter to herself,” that is, “sick inside” (2 Kgs 4:27)

⁴ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”

³ tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”

² tn Heb “and he yelled [with] a great and bitter yell to excess.”

¹ tn Heb “And they were [a source of] bitterness in spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.”