3:3 You 1 devour my people’s flesh,
strip off their skin,
and crush their bones.
You chop them up like flesh in a pot 2 –
like meat in a kettle.
3:4 Someday these sinners will cry to the Lord for help, 3
but he will not answer them.
He will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have done such wicked deeds.”
1 tn Heb “who.”
2 tc The MT reads “and they chop up as in a pot.” The translation assumes an emendation of כַּאֲשֶׁר (ka’asher, “as”) to כִּשְׁאֵר (kish’er, “like flesh”).
3 tn Heb “then they will cry out to the