Ratapan 3:15

3:15 He has given me my fill of bitter herbs

and made me drunk with bitterness. ¹ 

Ratapan 3:18

3:18 So I said, “My endurance has expired;

I have lost all hope of deliverance ²  from the Lord.”

Ratapan 3:38

3:38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes –

both calamity and blessing? ³ 

Ratapan 5:18

5:18 For wild animals ⁴  are prowling over Mount Zion,

which lies desolate.

[3:15]  ¹ tn Heb “wormwood” or “bitterness” (BDB 542 s.v. לַעֲנָה; HALOT 533 s.v. לַעֲנָה).

[3:18]  ² tn Heb “and my hope from the Lord.” The hope is for deliverance. The words, “I have lost all…” have been supplied in the translation in order to clarify the Hebrew idiom for the English reader.

[3:38]  ³ tn Heb “From the mouth of the Most High does it not go forth, both evil and good?”

[5:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “jackals.” The term “jackals” is a synecdoche of species (= jackals) for general (= wild animals).