Lamentations 3:53

3:53 They shut me ¹  up in a pit

and threw stones at me.

Lamentations 3:58

ר (Resh)

3:58 O Lord, ²  you championed ³  my cause, ⁴ 

you redeemed my life.

¹ tn Heb “my life.”

² tc The MT reads אֲדֹנָי (’adonay, “the Lord”) here rather than יהוה (YHWH, “the Lord”) as in the following verse. See the tc note at 1:14.

³ tn This verb, like others in this stanza, could be understood as a precative (“Plead”).

⁴ tn Heb “the causes of my soul.” The term נַפְשִׁי (nafshi, “my soul”) is a synecdoche of part (= my soul) for the whole person (= me).