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# Hope of Israel
This is another name for Yahweh. Alternate translation: "You are the hope of Israel" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# why will you be like a stranger in the land, like a foreign wanderer who stretches out and spends just one night?
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The people are asking if Yahweh is unconcerned with his people and unable to help them. This can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "you should not be like a stranger in the land, like a foreign wanderer who stretches out and spends just one night." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# why will you be like a stranger in the land, like a foreign wanderer ... just one night
This question speaks of the possibility of Yahweh being unconcerned with helping his people as if he were a stranger just travelling though a place unconcerned with those living there. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])