¹ tn Heb “foreigners consume his strength”; cf. NRSV “devour (NIV “sap”) his strength.”

² tn Heb “detestable.” The word is often used to describe the figures of foreign gods.

³ tn Heb “scattered your ways with foreign [gods]” or “spread out your breasts to strangers.”

³ tc Some with support from the LXX emend זָרִים (zarim, “foreigners”) to זֵדִים (zedim, “the insolent”).

¹ tn The verb גּוּר (gur) normally refers to living as a dependent, resident foreigner in another society.

¹ tn Heb “As for your land, before you foreigners are devouring it.”

² tn Heb “the house of Jacob from a nation speaking a foreign language.”

¹ tn Heb “from lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

³ tn Heb “among the lands.” The word “foreign” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁴ tn Heb “their prisons.” The besieged cities of the foreigners are compared to prisons.

² tn Heb “Who may live as a resident foreigner in your tent?”

¹ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

¹ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

¹ tn Heb “And from the hand of a son of a foreigner.”

² tn Or “to those living as resident foreigners,” “to the exiles.” This term is used metaphorically of Christians who live in this world as foreigners, since their homeland is heaven.

² tn Or “[resident] foreigner.” The term גֵּר (ger) refers to a foreign resident, but with different social implications in different settings. Here the “stranger” stands in need of the hospitality of lodgings.

⁵ tn The conjunction is used here to specify the application of the law: “and for the resident foreigner, and for the one…” indicates “both for the resident foreigner and the one who….”

² tn Heb “foreigner [singular].” Some medieval Hebrew mss, Smr, LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate add “who resides”: “the foreigner who resides in Israel” (cf., e.g., Lev 20:2 above).

³ tn The Hebrew word גֵּר (ger), a foreign resident, sounds like and may be the first element of the name Gershom. But the word for “foreign” land (נָכְרִיִּה; nokriyyah) is built on a different root.

¹ tn Heb “the kingdoms of the nations.” Cf. KJV “the kingdoms of the heathen”; NIV, NLT “foreign kingdoms.”