Psalms 66:11-12

66:11 You led us into a trap; ¹ 

you caused us to suffer. ² 

66:12 You allowed men to ride over our heads;

we passed through fire and water,

but you brought us out into a wide open place. ³ 

Psalms 119:25

ד (Dalet)

119:25 I collapse in the dirt. ⁴ 

Revive me with your word! ⁵ 

Isaiah 51:23

51:23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors ⁶ 

who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’

You made your back like the ground,

and like the street for those who walked over you.”

Lamentations 4:5

ה (He)

4:5 Those who once feasted on delicacies ⁷ 

are now starving to death ⁸  in the streets.

Those who grew up ⁹  wearing expensive clothes ¹⁰ 

are now dying ¹¹  amid garbage. ¹² 

[66:11]  ¹ tn Heb “you brought us into a net.” This rare word for “net” also occurs in Ezek 12:13; 13:21; 17:20.

[66:11]  ² tn Heb “you placed suffering on our hips.” The noun מוּעָקָה (mu’aqah, “suffering”) occurs only here in the OT.

[66:12]  ³ tc The MT reads רְוָיָה (“saturation”) but this should be emended to רְוָחָה (rÿvakhah, “wide open place”; i.e., “relief”), a reading supported by several ancient versions (LXX, Syriac, Jerome, Targum).

[119:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “my soul clings to the dirt.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “being; soul”) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 4.a).

[119:25]  ⁵ tn Heb “according to your word.” Many medieval Hebrew mss read the plural “your words.”

[51:23]  ⁶ tn That is, to make them drink it.

[4:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “eaters of delicacies.” An alternate English gloss would be “connoisseurs of fine foods.”

[4:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “are desolate.”

[4:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “were reared.”

[4:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in purple.” The term תוֹלָע (tola’, “purple”) is a figurative description of expensive clothing: it is a metonymy of association: the color of the dyed clothes (= purple) stands for the clothes themselves.

[4:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “embrace garbage.” One may also translate “rummage through” (cf. NCV “pick through trash piles”; TEV “pawing through refuse”; NLT “search the garbage pits.”

[4:5]  ¹² tn The Hebrew word אַשְׁפַּתּוֹת (’ashpatot) can also mean “ash heaps.” Though not used as a combination elsewhere, to “embrace ash heaps” might also envision a state of mourning or even dead bodies lying on the ash heaps.