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Lamentaciones 1:13
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Desde lo alto El envió fuego que penetró en mis huesos. Ha tendido una red a mis pies, me ha hecho volver atrás, me ha dejado desolada, desfallecida todo el día.
Desde lo alto envi� fuego en mis huesos, el cual prevaleci�; tendido red a mis pies, me volvi� atr�s, me dej� desolada y desfallezco todo el d�a.
Mem : Desde lo alto envi� fuego en mis huesos, el cual se ense�ore�; extendi� red a mis pies, me torn� atr�s, me puso asolada, y que siempre tenga dolor.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
above: Lamentations 2:3, Lamentations 2:4, Deuteronomy 32:21-25, Job 30:30, Psalms 22:14, Psalms 31:10, Psalms 102:3-5, Nahum 1:6, Habakkuk 3:16, 2 Thessalonians 1:8, Hebrews 12:29
he hath spread: Lamentations 4:17-20, Job 18:8, Job 19:6, Psalms 66:11, Ezekiel 12:13, Ezekiel 17:20, Ezekiel 32:3, Hosea 7:12
he hath turned: Psalms 35:4, Psalms 70:2, Psalms 70:3, Psalms 129:5, Isaiah 42:17
desolate: Lamentations 1:22, Lamentations 5:17, Deuteronomy 28:65, Jeremiah 4:19-29
Reciprocal: Exodus 12:9 - but roast with fire Deuteronomy 28:66 - General 2 Chronicles 35:13 - roasted Proverbs 29:5 - spreadeth Isaiah 30:27 - burning Jeremiah 38:22 - they are Jeremiah 45:3 - I fainted Lamentations 3:11 - he hath made Lamentations 3:47 - desolation Micah 6:13 - in 1 Timothy 5:5 - and desolate
Gill's Notes on the Bible
From above hath he sent fire into my bones,.... Which the Targum interprets of her fortified cities, towns, or castles; as Jerusalem, more especially the temple, and the palaces of the king and nobles in it; which, though burnt by the fire of the Chaldeans, yet, this being according to the determination and by the direction of the Lord, is said to be sent from above, from heaven; so that they seemed to be as it were struck with lightning from heaven; unless it should be thought rather to be understood of the fire of divine wrath, of which the people of the Jews had a quick sense, and was like a burning fever in them:
and it prevails against them; or "it" z; that is, the fire prevails against or rules over everyone of the bones, to the consumption of them: or rather, "he rules over it" a; that is, God rules over the fire; directs it, and disposes of it, according to his sovereign will and pleasure, to the destruction of the strength of the Jewish nation:
he hath spread a net for my feet; in which she was entangled, so that she could not flee from the fire, and escape it, if she would. The allusion is to the taking of birds and wild beasts in nets; if God had not spread a net for the Jews, the Chaldeans could never have taken them; see Ezekiel 12:13;
he hath turned me back; her feet being taken in the net, she could not go forward, but was obliged to turn back, or continue in the net, not being able to extricate her feet: or, "turned me upon my back"; as the Arabic version; laid me prostrate, and so an easy prey to the enemy; or, as the Targum,
"he hath caused me to turn the back to mine enemies:''
he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day; the cities being without inhabitants; the land uncultivated; the state in a sickly and languishing condition; and which continued so to the end of the seventy years' captivity.
z וירדנה "et desaeviit in ea", Munster, Tigurine version; "et contrivit ipsum"; so some in Vatablus. a "Et dominatus est ea", Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate.
Lamentations 1:13
It prevaileth - Or, hath subdued.
He hath turned me back - Judaea, like a hunted animal, endeavors to escape, but finds every outlet blocked by nets, and recoils from them with terror and a sense of utter hopelessness.
Lamentations 1:14
Bound by his hand - As the plowman binds the yoke upon the neck of oxen, so God compels Judah to bear the punishment of her sins.
They are wreathed, and ... - Or, they are knotted together, “they come up” etc. Judah’s sins are like the cords by which the pieces of the yoke are fastened together Jeremiah 27:2; they are knotted and twined like a bunch upon the neck, and bind the yoke around it so securely that it is impossible for her to shake it off.
He hath made ... - Or, it hath made “my strength” to stumble. The yoke of punishment thus imposed and securely fastened, bows down her strength by its weight, and makes her totter beneath it.
The Lord - The third distich of the verse begins here, and with it a new turn of the lamentation. The title Adonai (properly, my Lord) is in the Lamentations used by itself in fourteen places, while the name Yahweh is less prominent; as if in their punishment the people felt the lordship of the Deity more, and His covenant-love to them less.
Lamentations 1:15
The Lord hath trodden under foot - Or, אדני 'ădonāy has made contemptible (i. e. put into the balance, made to go up as the lighter weight, and so made despicable) “my war-horses” (put metaphorically for heroes).
In the midst of me - They had not fallen gloriously in the battlefield, but remained ignominiously in the city.
Assembly - Or, “a solemn feast;” the word especially used of the great festivals Leviticus 23:2. אדני 'ădonāy has proclaimed a festival, not for me, but against me.
The Lord hath trodden ... - Or, “אדני 'ădonāy hath trodden the winepress for the virgin daughter of Judah.” See Jeremiah 51:14 note. By slaying Judah’s young men in battle, God is trampling for her the winepress of His indignation.
