¹ tn Or “forget.”

² tn Or “forget.”

³ tn Or “forget.”

² tn Heb “I forget.”

² tn Heb “did not forget.”

⁴ tn Heb “forget” (so KJV, NRSV); cf. NLT “forget to bless.”

¹ tn Heb “and that you forget.”

² tn Heb “do not forget forever.”

¹ tn Heb “[you who] forget God.” “Forgetting God” here means forgetting about his commandments and not respecting his moral authority.

² tn Heb “will you forget me continually.”

² tn The king was not to “drink and forget”; the suffering are to “drink and forget.”

⁴ tn Or “I will never forget all your deeds.”

¹ tn Heb “do not kill them, lest my people forget.”

² tn Heb “God forgets, he hides his face, he never sees.”

³ tn Heb “forgetfulness.” The noun, which occurs only here in the OT, is derived from a verbal root meaning “to forget.”

¹ tn Heb “if forgetting, you forget.” The infinitive absolute is used for emphasis; the translation indicates this with the words “at all” (cf. KJV).

¹ tn Heb “the former things” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “forget all that.”

² tn The verbal form is a cohortative of resolve: “I will forget” or “I am determined to forget.” The same will be used in the second colon of the verse.

¹ tn The Hebrew text has simply, “forget.” The words “about worshiping at” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹ tn The meaning of the first Hebrew word in the line is unclear. Possibly it is a combination of the interrogative particle and אִשׁ (ʾish), an alternate form of יֵשׁ (yesh, “there is/are”). One could then translate literally, “Are there treasures of sin [in] the house of the sinful?” The translation assumes an emendation to הַאֶשֶּׁה (haʾesheh, from נָשָׁא, nashaʾ, “to forget”), “Will I forget?” The rhetorical question expects an answer, “No, I will not forget.”