Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageYour sons lie collapsed at the corner of every street, helpless as an antelope snared in a hunter's net — filled to the brim with the wrath of Yahweh, staggering under the rebuke of your God.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GYour sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope caught in a net — full of the wrath of YHWH, of the rebuke of your Elohim.
KJV
King James VersionThy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleYour sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
Footnotes
תּוֹא מִכְמָר (*to'a mikmar*, "antelope in a net") is a devastatingly precise image: the *to'a* (wild antelope or oryx) is a creature of speed and open space — the emblem of free-ranging vitality. Caught in a *mikmar* (net or snare), it is suddenly and totally helpless, its natural power rendered useless. The image maps perfectly onto Israel's sons: once bearers of covenantal promise and vigour, now sprawled in the dust. FOG uses "antelope" for its swift grace; FOG Message adds "hunter's net" to foreground the deliberateness of the trap and makes the snaring feel like judgment imposed, not merely misfortune suffered.
