35:12 They repay me evil for the good I have done; 1
I am overwhelmed with sorrow. 2
35:14 I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. 3
I bowed down 4 in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother. 5
1 tn Heb “they repay me evil instead of good.”
2 tn Heb “[there is] bereavement to my soul.”
3 tn Heb “like a friend, like a brother to me I walked about.”
4 sn I bowed down. Bowing down was a posture for mourning. See Ps 38:6.
5 tn Heb “like mourning for a mother [in] sorrow I bowed down.”