¹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

¹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

¹ tn Grk “every male that opens the womb” (an idiom for the firstborn male).

² tn Heb “so as not to have compassion on the son of her womb?”

³ tn Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”

² tn Heb “from the womb of my mother you [have been] my God.”

³ sn These verses figuratively describe the formation of the embryo in the womb.

³ tn Heb “hidden.” The LXX paraphrases: “an untimely birth, proceeding from his mother’s womb.”

² tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV); NRSV “of your body.”

¹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”

¹ tn Heb “will bless the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).

¹ tn Heb “and the one that opens [the womb of] the donkey.”

² tn Heb “who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb.”

⁵ tn The two halves of the verse use the prepositional phrases (“from the womb” and “from the belly I went out”) in the temporal sense of “on emerging from the womb.”

² tn The word פֶּטֶּר (petter) means “that which opens”; this construction literally says, “that which opens every womb,” which means “the first offspring of every womb.” Verses 12 and 15 further indicate male offspring.

² tn Grk “Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the breasts that have not nursed!”

¹ tn Heb “the womb.” The words “your mother’s” are implicit and are supplied in the translation for clarity.

² tn The expression “from my mother’s womb” is obviously hyperbolic. It is a way of saying “all his life.”

¹ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”

² tn Heb had completely closed up every womb.” In the Hebrew text infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.