Lamentations 3:27
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- 62 See note at on the Hebrew term for “man” here.
- 63 Heb “that he bear.”
- 64 Jeremiah is referring to the painful humiliation of subjugation to the Babylonians, particularly to the exile of the populace of Jerusalem. The Babylonians and Assyrians frequently used the phrase “bear the yoke” as a metaphor: their subjects were made as subservient to them as yoked oxen were to their masters. Because the Babylonian exile would last for seventy years, only those who were in their youth when Jerusalem fell would have any hope of living until the return of the remnant. For the middle-aged and elderly, the yoke of exile would be insufferable; but those who bore this “yoke” in their youth would have hope.
- 65 Heb “in his youth.” The preposition ב (bet) functions in a temporal sense: “when.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
It is good for a man that he bear
the yoke in his youth.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is young.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is still young.
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NLTNew Living Translation
And it is good for people to submit at an early age
to the yoke of his discipline:
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
It is good for a man who carries
the yoke of his childhood.
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KJV 1900King James Version
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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