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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Lamentations 1:20 - 1:20
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Resh
bowels ... troubled - (Job 30:27; Isa 16:11; Jer 4:19; Jer 31:20). Extreme mental distress affects the bowels and the whole internal frame.
heart ... turned - (Hos 11:8); is agitated or fluttered.
abroad ... sword ... at home ... as death - (Deu 32:25; Eze 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 (2Ki 25:3; Jer 14:18; Jer 52:6). So Hab 2:5, “as death” [Michaelis].