5:1 Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, 1 family 2 of Israel:
5:17 In all the vineyards there will be wailing,
for I will pass through 3 your midst,” says the Lord.
[5:1] 1 tn Heb “Listen to this word which I am about to take up against you, a funeral song.”
[5:1] 2 tn Heb “house.”
[5:17] 3 sn The expression pass through your midst alludes to Exod 12:12, where the Lord announced he would “pass through” Egypt and bring death to the Egyptian firstborn.