Footnote

For the rendering “You people are​—⁠O what a burden!” see VT, Vol. VI, 1956, pp. 315, 316. Heb., ʼeth-mah-mas·saʼʹ! Thus in answer to the people’s question mah-mas·saʼʹ? Jeremiah puns and replies, ʼeth-mah-mas·saʼʹ! LXXVg^c(Lat., vos eʹstis oʹnus), “You people are the burden.”