³ tn Heb “growth of flocks.”

³ tn Heb “to his flock.”

² tn Heb “the flock of your inheritance.”

³ tn Heb “all their flock (or “pasturage”).”

² tn Heb “the faces of your flock.”

¹ tn Heb “flocks.” The Hebrew word can refer to both flocks of sheep and herds of cattle.

⁴ tn Heb “the flock that was given to you.”

⁴ tn Heb “the joy of wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks.”

¹ tn Or “young rams”; NIV, NCV “sheep”; NLT “flocks.”

³ tn Heb “listening to the pipe playing for the flocks.”

⁴ tn Grk “living in the field (see BDAG 15 s.v. ἀγραυλέω) and guarding their flock.”

¹ tn Heb “and at every breeding-heat of the flock, the strong females.”

¹ tn Heb “And if from the flock is his offering, from the sheep or from the goats, for a burnt offering.” Here “flock” specifies the broad category, with “sheep or goats” giving specific examples.

² tn Heb “and he refused to take from his flock and from his herd to prepare [a meal] for.”

¹ tn The word is “shepherds.” It means that the people would be wilderness nomads, grazing their flock on available land.

² tn The שֶּׂה (seh) is a single head from the flock, or smaller cattle, which would include both sheep and goats.

² tn Heb “in the time of the breeding of the flock I lifted up my eyes and I saw.”

² sn This individual with a hundred sheep is a shepherd of modest means, as flocks often had up to two hundred head of sheep.

² sn This individual with a hundred sheep is a shepherd of modest means, as flocks often had up to two hundred head of sheep.

¹ tn Heb “Wail and cry out, you shepherds. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock.” The terms have been reversed to explain the figure.