Jeremiah 5:26

Footnotes

1. 72 The meaning of the last three words is uncertain. The pointing and meaning of the Hebrew word rendered “hiding in ambush” is debated. relates the form (כְּשַׁךְ, késhakh) to a root שָׁכַךְ (shakhakh), which elsewhere means “decrease, abate” (cf. 1013 שָׁכַךְ), and notes that this is usually understood as “like the crouching of fowlers,” but they say this meaning is dubious. I שׁוֹר questions the validity of the text and offers three proposals; the second appears to create the least textual modification, i.e., reading כְּשַׂךְ (kesakh, “as in the hiding place of (bird catchers)”; for the word שַׂךְ (sakh) see שׂךְ 4 and compare Lam 2:6 for usage. The versions do not help. The Greek does not translate the first two words of the line. The proposal given in is accepted with some hesitancy.
2. 73 Heb “a destroying thing.”