[3:48] 1 tn Heb “canals.” The phrase “canals of water” (eye water = tears) is an example of hyperbole. The English idiom “streams of tears” is also hyperbolic.
[3:48] 2 tn Heb “my eyes flow down with canals of water.”
[3:48] 3 tn Heb “the daughter of my people,” or “the Daughter, my people.”
[3:48] 4 tn Heb “because of the destruction of [the daughter of my people].”
[3:63] 5 tn Heb “their rising and their sitting.” The two terms שִׁבְתָּם וְקִימָתָם (shivtam vÿqimatam, “their sitting and their rising”) form a merism: two terms that are polar opposites are used to encompass everything in between. The idiom “from your rising to your sitting” refers to the earliest action in the morning and the latest action in the evening (e.g., Deut 6:7; Ps 139:3). The enemies mock Jerusalem from the moment they arise in the morning until the moment they sit down in the evening.
