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Lamentaciones 1:3
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Judá ha ido al destierro bajo aflicción y bajo dura servidumbre. Ella habita entre las naciones, mas no halla descanso; todos sus perseguidores la han alcanzado en medio de la angustia.
Jud� ha ido en cautiverio, a causa de la aflicci�n y de dura servidumbre; Ella mor� entre las gentes, y no hall� descanso: Todos sus perseguidores la alcanzaron entre las estrechuras.
Gu�mel : Se fue Jud� en cautiverio , a causa de la aflicci�n y de la grandeza de servidumbre. Ella mora entre los gentiles, y no halla descanso. Todos sus perseguidores la alcanzaron entre estrechuras.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
gone: 2 Kings 24:14, 2 Kings 24:15, 2 Kings 25:11, 2 Kings 25:21, 2 Chronicles 36:20, 2 Chronicles 36:21, Jeremiah 39:9, Jeremiah 52:15, Jeremiah 52:27-30
because of great servitude: Heb. for the greatness of servitude
she: Lamentations 2:9, Leviticus 26:36-39, Deuteronomy 28:64-67, Jeremiah 24:9, Ezekiel 5:12
all: Lamentations 4:18, Lamentations 4:19, Jeremiah 16:16, Jeremiah 52:8, Amos 9:1-4
Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:33 - General Judges 20:42 - the battle Ezra 2:1 - whom Nebuchadnezzar Psalms 32:3 - bones Psalms 129:1 - have they Isaiah 23:12 - there also Jeremiah 39:5 - Chaldeans'
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Judah is gone into captivity,.... Not only Jerusalem the metropolis of Judea was destroyed, but the whole country was ravaged, and the inhabitants of it carried captive into Babylon:
because of affliction, and because of great servitude; because of their sins in oppressing and afflicting their poor brethren, and retaining them in a state of bondage after their seven years' servitude, contrary to the law of God; for which they were threatened with captivity,
Jeremiah 34:13; so the Targum,
"the house of Judah went into captivity, because they afflicted the fatherless and the widows; and because of the multitude of service which they caused their brethren the children of Israel to serve, who were sold unto them; and they did not proclaim liberty to their servants and maidens, who were of the seed of Israel:''
or, "through affliction, and through great servitude" l; that is, through the affliction and servitude they suffered by the Chaldeans, into whose hands they fell; though some understand it of the Jews, who, to escape the affliction and servitude of the Chaldeans, went into a kind of voluntary captivity, fleeing to the countries of Moab, Ammon, and Edom, during the siege of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans; see
Jeremiah 40:11;
she dwelleth among the Heathen; the uncircumcised and the unclean; and so was deprived of both her civil and religious liberties; having no opportunity of worshipping God, and enjoying him in his courts, as formerly; and which must be very uncomfortable living, especially to those who were truly gracious:
she findeth no rest. The Targum adds,
"because of the hard service to which they subjected her;''
she found no natural rest, being carried from place to place; nor civil rest, being kept in hard bondage; nor spiritual rest, being deprived of the worship and ordinances of God; and being conscious of her sins, which had brought all this misery on her:
all her persecutors overtook her between the straits; having hunted her as men hunt wild beasts, and get them into some strait and difficult place, and then seize on them. The Targum interprets it, between the borders; or between the hedges, as Ben Melech; and so Jarchi, of the borders of a field and vineyard; and of a ditch on the one side and the other, that there is no room to escape; and who makes mention of a Midrash, that explains it not of place, but time, between the seventeenth day of Tammuz, and the ninth of Ab; see Jeremiah 52:7.
l מעני "per afflictionem"; ט "hic, non [prae], sed per significat", Grotius; "[vel] prae afflictione, [sub.] a Chaldaeis perpessa"; so some in Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Because of ... - i. e. the people, not of Jerusalem only, but of the whole land, “is gone into exile to escape from the affliction and laborious servitude,” to which they are subject in their own land.
Persecutors ... between the straits - Rather, “pursuers ... in the midst of her straits.” The Jews flee like deer to escape from the invading Chaldaeans, but are driven by them into places from where there is no escape.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Lamentations 1:3. Between the straits. — She has been brought into such difficulties, that it was impossible for her to escape. Has this any reference to the circumstances in which Zedekiah and the princes of Judah endeavoured to escape from Jerusalem, by the way of the gates between the two walls? Jeremiah 52:7.
