Translations
Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
You should not have entered the gate of My people on the day of their calamity; you should not have looked on their ruin—yes, you—on the day of their calamity; you should not have laid hands on their wealth on the day of their calamity.
You should not have marched through the gate of My people on the day of their calamity; you should not have gloated over their disaster on the day of their calamity; you should not have seized their wealth on the day of their calamity.
You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.
Footnotes
"Eido" (his/their calamity) appears three times in this single verse — a prosecutorial hammer-blow of repetition, liturgical in its rhythm. "Gam-atah" (even you/yes, you) inserts a moment of direct accusatory address mid-verse; F.O.G. preserves this with "yes, you." "Shlachnah be-cheilo" (sending the hand into his wealth) is the idiom for looting. Both versions preserve the triple refrain as the intentional rhetorical structure it is.
