Mazmur 44:14-15

44:14 You made us ¹  an object of ridicule ²  among the nations;

foreigners treat us with contempt. ³ 

44:15 All day long I feel humiliated ⁴ 

and am overwhelmed with shame, ⁵ 

Ratapan 2:16

פ (Pe)

2:16 All your enemies

gloated over you. ⁶ 

They sneered and gnashed their teeth;

they said, “We have destroyed ⁷  her!

Ha! We have waited a long time for this day.

We have lived to see it!” ⁸ 

Ratapan 3:62

3:62 My assailants revile and conspire ⁹ 

against me all day long.

[44:14]  ¹ tn The prefixed verbal form is a preterite (without vav [ו] consecutive).

[44:14]  ² tn Heb “a proverb,” or “[the subject of] a mocking song.”

[44:14]  ³ tn Heb “a shaking of the head among the peoples.” Shaking the head was a derisive gesture (see Jer 18:16; Lam 2:15).

[44:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the day my humiliation [is] in front of me.”

[44:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the shame of my face covers me.”

[2:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “they have opened wide their mouth against you.”

[2:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “We have swallowed!”

[2:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “We have attained, we have seen!” The verbs מָצָאנוּ רָאִינוּ (matsa’nu ra’inu) form a verbal hendiadys in which the first retains its full verbal sense and the second functions as an object complement. It forms a Hebrew idiom that means something like, “We have lived to see it!” The three asyndetic 1st person common plural statements in 2:16 (“We waited, we destroyed, we saw!”) are spoken in an impassioned, staccato style reflecting the delight of the conquerors.

[3:62]  ⁹ tn Heb “the lips of my assailants and their thoughts.”