they have flung us from our
dwellings. The translation emends the Masoretic Text, which reads,
literally, “they have flung our dwellings,” hishlikhu mishkenoteinu, to hishilikhunu
mimishekenoteinu. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New
York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:892)