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 are troubled - (Job 30:27; Isaiah 16:11; Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 31:20). Extreme mental distress affects the bowels and the whole internal frame.
Mine heart is turned - (Hosea 11:8, "Mine heart is turned within me") i:e., is agitated or fluttered. Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death - (Deuteronomy 32:25; Ezekiel 7:15). The "as" does not modify, but intensifies. 'Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home as it were death itself' (personified), in the form of famine and pestilence (2 Kings 25:3; Jeremiah 14:18; Jeremiah 52:6). So Habakkuk 2:5, "is as death" (Michaelis).
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