Lamentations 1:13

It is from on high that he has sent fire into my bones, and it has conquered them. 1 He has spread a net for my feet and turned me back. 1 He has made me constantly desolate and weak. 1

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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.

In Context

12Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? 1 Look and see if there is anyone else's sorrow like the sorrow that is being inflicted on me, 1 since Yahweh has tormented me on the day of his fierce anger. 1

14The yoke of my transgressions is bound together by his hand. 1 They are knit together and placed upon my neck. He has made my strength fail. 1 The Lord has given me over into their hands, and I am not able to stand. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 12:9Do not eat it raw or boiled in water. Instead, roast it over fire with its head, legs and inner parts.

Deuteronomy 32:21They have made me jealous by what is not god 1 and angered me by their worthless things. 1 I will make them envious by those who are not a people; 1 by a foolish nation I will make them angry. 1

Job 19:6then you should know that God has done wrong to me 1 and has caught me in his net. 1

Psalms 22:14I am being poured out like water, 1 and all my bones are dislocated. 1 My heart is like wax; 1 it melts away within my inner parts. 1

Psalms 35:4May those who seek my life be shamed and dishonored. 1 May those who plan to harm me be turned back and confounded. 1

Psalms 70:2Let those who try to take my life 1 be ashamed and humiliated; 1 let them be turned back and brought to dishonor, 1 those who take pleasure in my pain. 1

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 1:13-22

God Acknowledged in Affliction; Jerusalem's Complaint. ( b. c. 588.) 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. 13 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. 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are… Read the whole commentary →

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