² tn Heb “weeping.”

¹ tn Heb “weeping.”

¹ tn Heb “with much weeping.”

⁴ tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”

² tn Heb “with a great weeping.”

² tn Heb “and he sought to weep.”

¹ sn Bokim means “weeping ones” and is derived from the Hebrew verb בָּכָא (bakhaʾ, “to weep”).

² tn Heb “I will lift up weeping and mourning.”

² tn Heb “there we sit down, also we weep.”

² tn Heb “in the evening weeping comes to lodge, but at morning a shout of joy.” “Weeping” is personified here as a traveler who lodges with one temporarily.

¹ tn Heb “and they will weep concerning you with bitterness of soul, (with) bitter mourning.”

¹ tn Heb “he was weeping/crying.” The translation is intended to better reflect the situation.

⁴ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”

³ tn Heb “until there was no longer in them strength to weep.”

² sn Do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves. Judgment now comes on the nation (see Luke 19:41-44) for this judgment of Jesus. Ironically, they mourn the wrong person—they should be mourning for themselves.

¹ tn Heb “So I weep with the weeping of Jazer.” Once more the speaker (the Lord?—see v. 10b) plays the role of a mourner (see 15:5).

⁴ tn This second colon is paraphrased in the LXX to say, “I weep being beset with terror.” The idea of “pouring forth water” while groaning can be represented by “I weep.” The word “fear, terror” anticipates the next verse.

² tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.

¹ tn Grk “weeping a great deal,” thus “loudly” (BDAG 472 s.v. ἱκανός and BDAG 546 s.v. κλαυθμός).

² tn Heb “even Dibon [to] the high places to weep.” The verb “went up” does double duty in the parallel structure.