
Text -- Lamentations 1:13 (NET)




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Wesley -> Lam 1:13
A judgment as consuming, and afflictive as fire.
JFB: Lam 1:13 - -- A fire which not only consumes the skin and flesh, but penetrates even to my "bones" (that is, my vital powers).
A fire which not only consumes the skin and flesh, but penetrates even to my "bones" (that is, my vital powers).

Not as ROSENMULLER, "He (Jehovah) hath broken them"; a sense not in the Hebrew.

JFB: Lam 1:13 - -- (Eze 12:13); image from hunting wild beasts. He has so entangled me in His judgments that I cannot escape.
(Eze 12:13); image from hunting wild beasts. He has so entangled me in His judgments that I cannot escape.

So that I cannot go forward and get free from His meshes.
Calvin -> Lam 1:13
Calvin: Lam 1:13 - -- The Prophet proceeds with the same subject, that God’s vengeance had raged most dreadfully agsinst Jerusalem. But employing a metaphor she says, th...
The Prophet proceeds with the same subject, that God’s vengeance had raged most dreadfully agsinst Jerusalem. But employing a metaphor she says, that fire had been sent to her bones. They who interpret bones of fortified places, weaken the meaning of the Prophet. I take bones in their proper sense, ss though it was said, that God’s fire had penetrated into the inmost parts. This way of speaking often occurs in Scripture. By bones is denoted strength or valor. Hence David sometimes deplored, that his bones were vexed or troubled. (Psa 6:2.) And Hezekiah said in his song
“As a lion he hath broken my bones.” (Isa 37:13.)
In the same sense the Prophet now says, that fire had been sent by God, which ruled in his bones, that is, which not only burnt the skin and the flesh, but also consumed the bones.
There is another similitude added, that God had spread a net before her feet; and thus he had taken away every means of escape. She intimates (for it is Jerusalem who speaks) that she had been ensnared by God’s judgments, so that she was bound over to ruin, as though she had fallen into toils or snares. It is stated in the third place, that she was desolate all the day, so that she sorrowed perpetually. By all the day is meant continually. It is then said, that she sorrowed without end, beyond measure, because she had been turned back by the nets of God, and her bones had been consumed by celestial fire: for the expression from above,
TSK -> Lam 1:13
TSK: Lam 1:13 - -- above : Lam 2:3, Lam 2:4; Deu 32:21-25; Job 30:30; Psa 22:14, Psa 31:10, Psa 102:3-5; Nah 1:6; Hab 3:16; 2Th 1:8; Heb 12:29
he hath spread : Lam 4:17-...
above : Lam 2:3, Lam 2:4; Deu 32:21-25; Job 30:30; Psa 22:14, Psa 31:10, Psa 102:3-5; Nah 1:6; Hab 3:16; 2Th 1:8; Heb 12:29
he hath spread : Lam 4:17-20; Job 18:8, Job 19:6; Psa 66:11; Eze 12:13, Eze 17:20, Eze 32:3; Hos 7:12
he hath turned : Psa 35:4, Psa 70:2, Psa 70:3, Psa 129:5; Isa 42:17
desolate : Lam 1:22, Lam 5:17; Deu 28:65; Jer 4:19-29

collapse allCommentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)
Barnes -> Lam 1:12-16
Barnes: Lam 1:12-16 - -- The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate. Lam 1:13 It prevaileth - Or, hath subdued. He hath turne...
The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate.
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.
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 Jer 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.
The Lord hath trodden under foot - Or,
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 Lev 23:2.
The Lord hath trodden ... - Or, "
Poole -> Lam 1:13
Poole: Lam 1:13 - -- By
fire he means a judgment as consuming and as afflictive as fire in the bones, which had consumed the strength of the Jews.
He hath spread a ne...
By
fire he means a judgment as consuming and as afflictive as fire in the bones, which had consumed the strength of the Jews.
He hath spread a net for my feet that is, God had brought them into a condition wherein they were entangled, and could not get out. The holy man owneth God as the first cause of all the evil they suffered, and entitles God to their various kinds of afflictions, both in captivity and during the siege, looking beyond the Babylonians, who were the proximate instrumental cause.
Haydock -> Lam 1:13
Haydock: Lam 1:13 - -- Bones: fortresses. (Theodoret) ---
I am like one in a burning fever, Ezechiel xxiv. 4. (Calmet) ---
Chastised. Literally, "instructed." This i...
Bones: fortresses. (Theodoret) ---
I am like one in a burning fever, Ezechiel xxiv. 4. (Calmet) ---
Chastised. Literally, "instructed." This is the good effect of affliction. (Haydock)
Gill -> Lam 1:13
Gill: Lam 1:13 - -- From above hath he sent fire into my bones,.... Which the Targum interprets of her fortified cities, towns, or castles; as Jerusalem, more especially ...
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 Eze 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.

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NET Notes: Lam 1:13 Heb “net.” The term “trapper’s” is supplied in the translation as a clarification.
Geneva Bible -> Lam 1:13
Geneva Bible: Lam 1:13 From above hath ( o ) 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 ma...

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TSK Synopsis -> Lam 1:1-22
TSK Synopsis: Lam 1:1-22 - --1 The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews pathetically lamented, with confessions of their sins.12 The attention and compassion of beholders demande...
MHCC -> Lam 1:12-22
MHCC: Lam 1:12-22 - --Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferings...
Matthew Henry -> Lam 1:12-22
Matthew Henry: Lam 1:12-22 - -- The complaints here are, for substance, the same with those in the foregoing part of the chapter; but in these verses the prophet, in the name of th...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Lam 1:12-16
Keil-Delitzsch: Lam 1:12-16 - --
The lamentation of the city . - Lam 1:12. The first words, לוא אליכם , are difficult to explain. The lxx have οἱ πρὸς ὑμ...
Constable -> Lam 1:1-22; Lam 1:12-22
Constable: Lam 1:1-22 - --I. The destruction and misery of Jerusalem (the first lament) ch. 1
This acrostic lament contains a variety of s...
