See in Reader
31 lines
1.3 KiB
Markdown
31 lines
1.3 KiB
Markdown
|
## Cut her trees ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
"Cut down the trees." Yahweh is speaking to the army that will attack Jerusalem.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## siegeworks ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
"siege mounds." These are mounds of dirt that will allow the enemy to attack the walls of Jerusalem.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## because it is filled with oppression ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
"because its people are always oppressing each other"
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## Just as a well keeps giving water, so this city keeps producing wickedness ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
A well is supposed to keep producing water. Like a well remains with its water, Jerusalem has remained with its wickedness, even when Yahweh punishes it. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-irony]])
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## Violence and disorder are heard in her ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
AT: "I hear violence and robbery in her." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## Suffering and plague are continually before me ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
AT: "I constantly see sickness and suffering." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## Accept discipline, Jerusalem ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Yahweh speaks to Jerusalem as though she was a person. AT: "Learn from your punishment, you people of Jerusalem." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-apostrophe]], [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## an uninhabited land ##
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
"a land that has no people living in it"
|