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# General Information:
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The people of Israel continue speaking.
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# Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our hearts so we do not fear you?
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Here the writer uses a question to express a complaint of the people to God. This question can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "Yahweh, you have made us wander from your ways and become stubborn so that we do not fear you." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# why do you make us wander from your ways
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To not do what Yahweh commands is spoken of as if a person wanders off of the correct path. Alternate translation: "why do you make do what is wrong" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# harden our hearts
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This means to become resistant to Yahweh's teaching by refusing to listen and obey. Here "heart" represents their motives, feelings and desires. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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