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561 B
561 B
General Information:
In these verses, the word "her" refers to the city of Babylon.
because of the fear of her torment
This can be restated to remove the abstract nouns "fear" and "torment." Alternate translation: "because they will be afraid of God tormenting them they way he torments her" or "because they will be afraid of suffering the way she is suffering" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns)
weeping and mourning loudly
This is what the merchants will be doing. Alternate translation: "and they will weep and mourn loudly"