¹ tn Heb “street.”

⁶ tn Heb “at the head of every street.”

⁷ tn Heb “at the head of every street.”

¹ sn This term refers to wide streets, and thus suggests the major streets of a city.

² tn Heb “streets,” but this must refer to streets set up with stalls for merchants to sell their goods. See HALOT 299 s.v. חוּץ.

¹ tn Heb “he will not cause his voice to be heard in the street.”

¹ tn Heb “[there is] an outcry over the wine in the streets.”

¹ tn Heb “outside.” Cf. ESV, “in the street,” referring to absence from his community’s memory.

³ sn The town square refers to the wide street area at the gate complex of the city.

³ tn The words “cities” is not in the text. The text merely says “in her streets,” but the antecedent is “land” and must then refer to the streets of the cities in the land.

² tn The Greek word πλατεῖα (plateia) refers to a major (broad) street (L&N 1.103).

² tn The Greek word πλατεῖα (plateia) refers to a major (broad) street (L&N 1.103).

² tn The Greek word πλατεῖα (plateia) refers to a major (broad) street (L&N 1.103).

¹ sn The noting of the detail of the locale, ironically called ‘Straight’ Street, shows how directive and specific the Lord was.

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

⁴ sn The name Rehoboth Ir means “and broad streets of a city,” perhaps referring to a suburb of Nineveh.

² tn The term κύνες (kunes) refers to “wild” dogs (either “street” dogs or watchdogs), not house pets (L&N 4.34).

⁵ tn Heb “in the street the sword bereaves.” The words “a mother of her children” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.

³ tc The LXX changes the phrase to read “murderers in the street” to form a better parallelism, possibly because the verb רָצַח (ratsakh) is used only of humans, not wild animals. The NIV attempts to solve the problem by making the second line a separate claim by the sluggard: “or, ‘I will be murdered in the streets!’”

¹ tn Or “lap dogs, house dogs,” as opposed to dogs on the street. The diminutive form originally referred to puppies or little dogs, then to house pets. In some Hellenistic uses κυνάριον (kunarion) simply means “dog.”