[5:11] 1 tn Heb “at your end.”
[5:11] 2 tn The form is the perfect tense with the vav consecutive; it is equal to a specific future within this context.
[5:11] 3 tn Heb “in the finishing of your flesh and your body.” The construction uses the Qal infinitive construct of כָּלָה (calah) in a temporal clause; the verb means “be complete, at an end, finished, spent.”
[5:13] 4 tn The vav that introduces this clause functions in an explanatory sense.
[5:13] 5 tn The Hebrew term מוֹרַי (moray) is the nominal form based on the Hiphil plural participle with a suffix, from the root יָרָה (yarah). The verb is “to teach,” the common noun is “instruction, law [torah],” and this participle form is teacher (“my teachers”).
[5:13] 6 sn The idioms are vivid: This expression is “incline the ear”; earlier in the first line is “listen to the voice,” meaning “obey.” Such detailed description emphasizes the importance of the material.
[5:13] 7 tn The form is the Piel plural participle of לָמַד (lamad) used substantivally.
