19:22 Why do you pursue me like God does? 1
Will you never be satiated with my flesh? 2
69:26 For they harass 3 the one whom you discipline; 4
they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish. 5
1 sn Strahan comments, “The whole tragedy of the book is packed into these extraordinary words.”
2 sn The idiom of eating the pieces of someone means “slander” in Aramaic (see Dan 3:8), Arabic and Akkadian.
3 tn Or “persecute”; Heb “chase.”
4 tn Heb “for you, the one whom you strike, they chase.”
5 tn Heb “they announce the pain of your wounded ones” (i.e., “the ones whom you wounded,” as the parallel line makes clear).