▼ Or “he made my paths deviate.”

▼ “Since the Heb. וַיְפַשְּׁחֵנִי (vaypash^ekheni) occurs only here, and the translation relies on the Syriac and the Targum, it is not certain that the image of God as a predatory animal continues into this verse especially since [the beginning of the verse] is also of uncertain meaning” (D. R. Hillers, Lamentations [AB], 54).