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Lamentaciones 1:14
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Atado ha sido el yugo de mis transgresiones, por su mano han sido entrelazadas, han caído sobre mi cuello. El ha hecho que me falten las fuerzas; el Señor me ha entregado en manos contra las cuales no puedo resistir.
El yugo de mis transgresiones est� atado por su mano, ataduras han subido sobre mi cerviz: ha hecho que falten mis fuerzas; me ha entregado el Se�or en manos contra las cuales no podr� levantarme.
Nun : El yugo de mis rebeliones est� ligado en su mano; entretejidas han subido sobre mi cerviz; ha hecho caer mis fuerzas; me ha entregado el Se�or en manos de donde no podr� levantarme.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
yoke: Deuteronomy 28:48, Proverbs 5:22, Isaiah 14:25, Isaiah 47:6, Jeremiah 27:8, Jeremiah 27:12, Jeremiah 28:14
delivered: Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 34:20, Jeremiah 34:21, Jeremiah 37:17, Jeremiah 39:1-9, Ezekiel 11:9, Ezekiel 21:31, Ezekiel 23:28, Ezekiel 25:4, Ezekiel 25:7, Hosea 5:14
Reciprocal: Numbers 19:2 - upon which Psalms 38:4 - as an Isaiah 24:20 - the transgression Isaiah 28:22 - lest Isaiah 42:24 - General Jeremiah 51:34 - the king Lamentations 3:7 - made Lamentations 5:5 - Our necks are under persecution Micah 2:3 - necks Zephaniah 1:17 - because Zechariah 5:8 - the weight
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand,.... That is, the punishment of her sins was laid upon her by the Lord himself; his hand was in it; it came from him; the Chaldeans were only instruments; and a heavy yoke this was. So the Targum renders it,
"the yoke of my rebellions is made heavy by his hand:''
they are wreathed, [and] come upon my neck; or, "twisted together" b; as lines to make a cord; or as several cords to make a rope; or as branches of trees or withes are implicated and entwined; and so the Targum,
"they are twisted together as the branches of a vine.''
It denotes the complication of judgments upon the Jewish nation for their sins, with which they were holden as with cords; and which were like ropes about their necks, very heavy and distressing to them, and from which they could not deliver themselves. Mr. Broughton thinks the apostle has reference to this passage; and explains it by the sin that easily besets, or cunningly wraps about, Hebrews 12:1;
he hath made my strength to fall; by the weight of punishment laid upon her, which she could not stand up under, but sunk and fell: this may be understood of her strong and mighty men; her men of valour and courage, who yet stumbled and fell:
the Lord hath delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise up; meaning the Chaldeans; nor were the Jews at last delivered from them by their own strength, but by the means of Cyrus the Persian conquering Babylon.
b ישתרגו "involutae", Vatablus; "perplexae", Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin; "contortae", Piscator, Grotius, Michaelis.
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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. The yoke of my transgressions — I am now tied and bound by the chain of my sins; and it is so wreathed, so doubled and twisted round me, that I cannot free myself. A fine representation of the miseries of a penitent soul, which feels that nothing but the pitifulness of God's mercy can loose it.
