Lamentations 1:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. ”

Lamentations 1:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Troubled - Or, inflamed with sorrow. Turned within me - Agitated violently. At home there is as death - i. e. “in the house” there are pale pining forms, wasting with hunger, and presenti...
Lamentations 1:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 1. The First Lament. This is an alphabetical acrostic poem in twenty-two stanzas of three lines each, with five Heb. beats in each line. It has two equal parts: Lamentations 1:1-11 (...
Lamentations 1:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Behold. Here begins the prayer. abroad the sword. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 32:25 ).
Lamentations 1:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The people turn again to pray God: and what has been before said ought to be remembered, that these lamentations of Jeremiah differ from the complaints of the ungodly; because the faithful firs...
Lamentations 1:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. Abroad the swo...
Lamentations 1:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Abroad the sword, &c.— Without, the sword bereaveth; within, the mortality. Virgil has an expression remarkably similar to this: Crudelis ubique Luctus, ubique pavor, et plurima mortis ima...
Lamentations 1:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. My bowels a...
Lamentations 1:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's Desolation and Sorrow Though the five poems contained in the book have practically the same theme—the downfall of Jerusalem—yet each poem dwells on a different phase of the subject as intim...
Lamentations 1:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Behold, O Lord... — Deserted by men, the mourner appeals to Jehovah. “Bowels” and “heart” are used almost as synonymous for the deepest emotions of the soul. The word for “troubled,” elsewhere ( Ps...
Lamentations 1:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

ZION'S APPEAL Lamentations 1:12-22 IN the latter part of the second elegy Jerusalem appears as the speaker, appealing for sympathy, first to stray, passing travellers, then to the larger circle...
Lamentations 1:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the Septuagint, the Lamentations are prefixed with the words, "And it came to pass that after Israel had been carried away captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented...
Lamentations 1:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. The yoke of my tr...
Lamentations 1:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, O Lord, for I [am] in distress ,.... Thus she turns from one to another; sometimes she addresses strangers, people that pass by; sometimes she calls to her lovers; and at other times to God,...
Lamentations 1:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death. Ver. 20. Be...
Lamentations 1:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress Take cognizance of my case, and use such means for my relief as thou pleasest. It is a matter of comfort to us, that the troubles which oppress our spirits are...
Lamentations 1:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

God Acknowledged in Affliction; Jerusalem's Complaint. B. C. 588. 12 Is it nothing t...
Lamentations 1:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The petition is of the same nature as before, a petition for mercy, as the product of that pity and compassion which extreme misery begets in good souls, (and is ascribed unto God, though found in hi...
Lamentations 1:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem Calls On The World, And Then On YHWH, To Behold Her Condition And Cries To Him For Vengeance ( Lamentations 1:12-22 ). This passage can be divided up into two parts, the first in which J...
Lamentations 1:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 1:12-22 . These verses form the second section of the poem. The city is represented as complaining of its harassed condition, 12–16, and then as acknowledging her...
Lamentations 1:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This chapter is composed in the acrostic character. Each verse begins with the Hebrew letters in alphabetical order; that is to say, the first begins with א aleph, the second with ב beth; and eac...
Lamentations 1:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Zion’s appeal 1. The whole passage evidently expresses a deep yearning for sympathy. Mere strangers, roving Bedouin, any people who may chance to be p...
Lamentations 1:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 1:1-25 A WAIL OF DISTRESS FOR JERUSALEM . Lamentations 1:1 , Lamentations 1:2 The fate of Jerusalem is described in language which resembles here...
Lamentations 1:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lament of the City and the Answer of the Lord
Lamentations 1:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 8:47-50 ; Deuteronomy 32:25 ; Ezekiel 7:15 ; Habakkuk 3:16 ; Hosea 11:8 ; Isaiah 16:11 ; Isaiah 38:14 ; Jeremiah 14:18 ; Jeremiah 2:35 ; Jeremiah 3:13 ; Jeremiah 31:20 ; Jeremiah...
Lamentations 1:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Death — By famine and pestilence.

Lamentations 1:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lamentations 1:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 1:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 1:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 1:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 1:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 1:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 1:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 1:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 1:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Lamentations 1:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 1:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 1:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 1:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes