Ratapan 3:24

3:24 “My portion is the Lord,” I have said to myself, ¹ 

so I will put my hope in him.

Ratapan 3:40

נ (Nun)

3:40 Let us carefully examine our ways, ² 

and let us return to the Lord.

[3:24]  ¹ tn Heb “My soul said…” The term נַפְשִׁי (nafshi, “my soul”) is a synecdoche of part (= my soul) for the whole person (= I ).

[3:40]  ² tn Heb “Let us test our ways and examine.” The two verbs וְנַחְקֹרָה…נַחְפְּשָׂה (nakhpÿsah…vÿnakhqorah, “Let us test and let us examine”) form a verbal hendiadys in which the first functions adverbially and the second retains its full verbal force: “Let us carefully examine our ways.”