¹ tn Grk “he led captive captivity.”

² tn Heb “you have taken captives captive.”

² tn Heb “are in captivity.”

¹ tn Heb “she is to…remove the clothing of her captivity” (cf. NASB); NRSV “discard her captive’s garb.”

² tn Heb “and took captive from him a great captivity and brought [them] to Damascus.”

¹ tn Heb “take captive your captives.” (The Hebrew text uses a cognate accusative here.)

¹ tn Heb “Even if they go into captivity before their enemies.”

¹ tn Aram “from the sons of the captivity [of].”

² tn Heb “Their soul/life has gone into captivity.

⁴ tn The singular noun שְׁבִי (sh^evi) is a collective singular, meaning “captives, prisoners.” It functions as an adverbial accusative of state: “[they] went away as captives.”

² tn Heb “Your sons will be taken away into captivity, your daughters into exile.”

² tn Or “I will make them prosperous once again,” or “I will bring them back from captivity.”

¹ tn Heb “they took captive and they plundered,” that is, “they captured as plunder.”

² tn Heb “and you have led away my daughters like captives of a sword.”

² tn Heb “among them.” The referent (the young men taken captive from Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “For I will rescue you from far away, your descendants from the land of their captivity.”

² tn Heb “For I will rescue you from far away, your descendants from the land of their captivity.”

¹ tc The MT reads לַגֹּלָה (laggolah, “as a captive”) with the preposition לְ (lamed) denoting essence/identity. On the other hand, 4QpNah reads בגולה (“as a captive”) with the preposition בְּ (bet) denoting essence/identity (“as a captive”). The LXX’s αἰξμάλωτος (aixmalōtos, “as a prisoner”) does not reveal which preposition was the original.

³ sn The verb שָׁגָה (shagah, “to swerve; to reel”) is repeated in a negative sense. If the young man is not captivated by his wife but is captivated with a stranger in sinful acts, then his own iniquities will captivate him and he will be led to ruin.

⁶ tn Traditionally, “restore their captivity,” i.e., bring back their captives. This followed the understanding of the LXX and other versions (cf. KJV “turn away their captivity”). The Hebrew tradition is mixed, the consonantal text implies the reading שְׁבוּת (shevut) but it is vocalized as if שְׁבִית (shevit). It is more likely the noun means “fortunes” (HALOT 1386 s.v. שְׁבִית, שְׁבוּת) as in the expression “restore their fortunes” (cf. NEB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).