6:7 Like a slice of pomegranate
is your forehead 1 behind your veil.
“O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.
1 tn Alternately, “your cheeks” or “your temple.” See 4:3.
2 tn Heb “the loving deeds and faithfulness” (see 24:27, 49).
3 tn Heb “you have done with.”
4 tn Heb “for with my staff.” The Hebrew word מַקֵל (maqel), traditionally translated “staff,” has been rendered as “walking stick” because a “staff” in contemporary English refers typically to the support personnel in an organization.
5 tn Heb “this Jordan.”
6 tn Heb “I said.”
7 tn Heb “and your mouth will not be open any longer.”
8 tn Heb “when I make atonement for you for all which you have done.”