For daughter of my people (TEV “my people”), see 4:11. Is … wounded translates a verb that is derived from the same stem as the noun wound. This is a tender picture: “When I see how my dear people are wounded, I myself am wounded.” Note that TEV uses alternative imagery with “crushed … crushed” to maintain the play on words. Mourn appears in the same form in 14:2 (RSV “lament”); in a slightly different form it is used in 4:28, where RSV translates “be black.” This is literally “be dark,” and it could
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