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# For this our heart has become sick
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The "heart" represents a person's emotions. This speaks of a person being discouraged as if their emotions were sick. AT: "Because of this we are discouraged" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# for these things our eyes grow dim
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This means that they have a hard time seeing because they are crying. AT: "and we can hardly see because our eyes are full of tears" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# for Mount Zion lies desolate
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Here "Mount Zion" refers to Jerusalem. The phrase "lies desolate" means that no one lives there.
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# jackals
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These are fierce wild dogs. See how you translated this in [Lamentations 4:3](../04/03.md).
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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/kt/zion]] |