Lamentations 1:22

Footnotes

1. 134 For the nuance “afflict” see the note at .
2. 135 For the nuance “afflict” see the note at .
3. 136 The parallel statements “afflict them” and “just as you have afflicted me” in the translation mirror the Hebrew wordplay between עוֹלֵל לָמוֹ (’olel lamo, “May you deal with them”) and עוֹלַלְתָּ לִי (’olalta li, “you dealt with me”).
4. 137 Heb “all my rebellions,” that is, “all my rebellious acts.”
5. 138 Heb “is sorrowful” or “is faint.” The adjective דַוָּי (davvay, “faint”) is used in reference to emotional sorrow (e.g., Isa 1:5; Lam 1:22; Jer 8:18). The cognate Aramaic term means “sorrow,” and the cognate term refers to “misery” ( *דְּוַי). The related Hebrew adjective דְּוַה (dévah) means “(physically) sick” and “(emotionally) sad,” while the related Hebrew verb דָּוָה (davah) means “to be sad” due to menstruation. The more literal English versions fail to bring out explicitly the nuance of emotional sorrow and create possible confusion whether the problem is simply loss of courage: “my heart is faint” (, , , , , , ). The more paraphrastic English versions explicate the emotional sorrow that this idiom connotes: “my heart is sick” (), “I am sick at heart” (), and “I’ve lost all hope!” ().