⁵ tn Heb “broken” or “shattered.”

⁴ tn Heb “broken” or “shattered.”

¹ tn Heb “a broken spirit.”

¹ tn Heb “all who aid her are broken.”

² tn Heb “a broken and crushed heart.”

¹ tn Heb “the broken” (so KJV, NASB; NRSV “the maimed”).

³ tn Heb “one breaks a treaty”; NAB “Covenants are broken.”

³ tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”

² tn Heb “I am like a broken jar.” One throws away a broken jar without a second thought because it is considered worthless and useless.

² sn The piece of bread was a broken-off piece of bread (not merely a crumb).

¹ tn Heb “for the arms of the evil ones will be broken.”

⁴ tn Heb “it is a disease. In the burn it has broken out.”

¹ tn Heb “the broken one.” The word “horn” has been supplied in the translation to clarify the referent.

³ tn Heb “the yoke bars of wood you have broken, but you have made in its stead yoke bars of iron.”

⁴ tn Heb “who were seeking my life, saying…” The sentence is broken up in conformity with contemporary English style.

⁴ tn Heb “have broken the yoke and torn off the yoke ropes.” Cf. Jer 2:20 and the note there.

² tn Heb “messengers of peace,” apparently those responsible for negotiating the agreements that have been broken (see v. 8).

² sn The Lord is here compared to a physician setting a broken bone in a bandage or cast.

² tn BDAG 607 s.v. λύω 3 has “λυθείσης τ. συναγωγῆς when the meeting of the synagogue had broken up Ac 13:43.”

³ tn Grk “cast lots” (probably by using marked pebbles or broken pieces of pottery). A modern equivalent “threw dice” was chosen here because of its association with gambling.