## translationWords

* [[en:tw:discipline]]
* [[en:tw:jerusalem]]
* [[en:tw:oppress]]
* [[en:tw:plague]]
* [[en:tw:ruin]]
* [[en:tw:suffer]]
* [[en:tw:turn]]
* [[en:tw:well]]
* [[en:tw:yahwehofhosts]]

## translationNotes

* **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: [[:en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_simile]] and [[:en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_irony]])
* **Violence and disorder are heard in her** - AT: "I hear violence and robbery in her." (See: [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_activepassive]])
* **Suffering and plague are continually before me** - AT: "I constantly see sickness and suffering." (See: [[:en:ta:vol1: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: [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_Apostrophe]], [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_Personification]] and [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_Metonymy]])
* **an uninhabited land** - "a land that has no people living in it"