² tn Or “exiled and thrust away”; NIV “exiled and rejected.”

² tn Heb “will go into exile.”

² tn Aram “sons of the exile.”

¹ tn Heb “the sons of the exile.”

¹ tn Heb “they will go into exile at the head of the exiles.”

⁴ tn Or “her maidservants are led away [into exile].”

¹ sn This metaphor depicts the Babylonian exile of the Davidic dynasty.

¹ sn The exiles lament the way they have been humiliated.

¹ tn Or “the banished of Israel,” i.e., the exiles.

⁶ sn A quotation from Amos 5:25-27. This constituted a prediction of the exile.

¹ tn In this line the second person pronoun is masculine plural, indicating that the exiles are addressed.

¹ sn The exiles of the nation are compared to lame and injured sheep.

⁵ tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.

² tn See the note on the word “exile” in 5:5.

⁵ tn Heb “[group of] exiles.” A similar phrase occurs in v. 6.

¹ sn God’s exiled people are told to leave doomed Babylon (see v. 45).

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

² tn The plural indicates degree. Darkness may refer to exile and/or moral evil.

¹ sn Psalm 107. The psalmist praises God for his kindness to his exiled people.

² tn Heb “the sons of the exile.” So also in v. 20.