³ tn Or “pay.”

³ tn Or “without [paying] compensation.”

¹ tn Or “Pay attention!” Grk “Behold.”

¹ tn Heb “I will pay you back.”

² tn Heb “by not paying attention to your voice.”

² tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”

³ tn The verb probably means “pay attention” in this verse.

⁴ tn Grk “paying attention” (the adverbial participle is either conditional [“if you pay attention”] or instrumental [“by paying attention”]; though there is difference in translation, there is virtually no difference in application). On a lexical level, “pay attention to” (προσέχω [prosechō]) does not, in a context such as this, mean merely observe or notice, but follow, give heed to, obey.

² tn Grk “behold” (for “pay attention” see L&N 91.13).

¹ tn Or “Therefore pay close attention”; Grk “Take heed therefore how you hear.”

² tn The Hebrew word implies obedience rather than mere hearing or paying attention.

³ tn Heb “paying to her a recompense [i.e., a payment in kind].”

² tn Heb “pays back into the bosom of their children the sin of their parents.”

² tn Ps 40:17 has “may the Lord pay attention to me.”

³ tn The expression “set your heart on” means “concentrate your mind on” or “pay attention to.”

⁴ tc The LXX has “make full payment, pay a full price” (LSJ 522 s.v. ἐκτίνω).

³ tn The imperfect tense here has the nuance of obligatory imperfect—he must pay back.

² sn The two silver coins were denarii. A denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s pay for a laborer; this would be an amount worth about two days’ pay.

³ tn Heb “inclined your ear to hear.” This is idiomatic for “paying attention.” It is often parallel with “listen,” as here, or with “pay attention” (see, e.g., Prov 4:20; 5:1).

¹ tn Grk “fulfill the obligation” or “pay the debt,” referring to the fulfillment of sexual needs within marriage.