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# Our heart has not turned back ... have not gone from your way
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These two phrases are parallel. The writer speaks of loyalty to God as if it were following him, and disloyalty as if it were turning away from him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Our heart has not turned back
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Here the word "heart" refers to the emotions, and specifically to loyalty and devotion. AT: "We have not stopped being loyal to you" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# you have severely broken us
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The writer speaks of God's punishment as if it were breaking a fragile object. AT: "you have punished us severely" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# in the place of jackals
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The writer speaks of Israel after God's punishment as if it were a wild, uninhabitable place. AT: "and made our land like a place where jackals live" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# jackals
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a type of wild dog
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# covered us with the shadow of death
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The writer speaks of death as if it is an object that casts a shadow over those who are about to die. AT: "made us so that we are about to die" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# If we have forgotten the name of our God
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Here the word "name" refers to God, himself. To forget God is to stop worshiping him. This is something that did not happen. AT: "If we had forgotten our God" or "If we had stopped worshiping our God" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo]])
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# spread out our hands to a strange god
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Spreading out the hands is a gesture that people used to worship and pray to a god. AT: "worshiped a strange god" or "prayed to a strange god" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-symaction]])
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# would not God search this out?
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The writer uses this question to express that God would know if they worshiped another god. AT: "God would certainly find out" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# he knows the secrets of the heart
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Here the word "heart" refers to the mind and thoughts. AT: "he knows what a person secretly thinks" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# we are being killed all day long
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The phrase "all day long" is an exaggeration to emphasize that their people are being killed frequently. This can be stated in active form. AT: "we are always in danger of people killing us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# we are considered to be sheep for the slaughter
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This can be stated in active form. AT: "people consider us to be sheep for the slaughter" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# sheep for the slaughter
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The writer compares the Israelites to sheep that people kill and eat. As sheep are helpless before those who kill them, so the Israelites are helpless before their enemies. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heart]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/turn]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/shadow]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/death]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/name]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/falsegod]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/sheep]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/slaughter]] |