Lamentations 1:20 NIV

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 1:20

Behold. Here begins the prayer. abroad the sword. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:25 ). read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Lamentations 1:20

JERUSALEM PRAYS FOR GOD'S VENGEANCE UPON HER ENEMIES"Behold, O Jehovah, for I am in distress; my heart is troubled;My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled:Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is death.They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me;All mine enemies have heard of my trouble;they are glad that thou hast done it:Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed,and they shall be like unto me.Let all their wickedness come before thee;And do unto... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:20

Lamentations 1:20. 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 imago. AEN. ii. l. 368. Death in a thousand forms destructive frown'd, And woe, despair, and horror rag'd around. PITT. Or, as our great poet describes the lazar-house, ———————————————Despair Tended the sick busiest from couch to couch; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook.... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

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

20. bowels . . . troubled— (Job 30:27; Isaiah 16:11; Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 31:20). Extreme mental distress affects the bowels and the whole internal frame. heart . . . turned— (Jeremiah 31:20- :); is agitated or fluttered. abroad . . . sword . . . at home . . . 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;... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 1:12-22

B. Jerusalem’s sorrow over her own condition 1:12-22In contrast to the first half of the lament, these verses present the picture of an inside observer looking out. Lamentations 1:12-19 record Jerusalem’s call to people who had observed her desolation, and Lamentations 1:20-22 contain her call to the Lord. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 1:20

The city was greatly distressed because of the calamity that had come upon it, due to its rebelliousness against Yahweh. The streets and houses had become places of death and now stood empty. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 1:20-22

2. Jerusalem’s call to the Lord 1:20-22 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 1:1-22

Zion’s Desolation and SorrowThough 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 intimated in the opening words of each chapter This first one emphasises the desolation and misery of the city, describing it as ’solitary,’ as ’a widow,’ and as ’tributary,’ i.e. Judah has lost her independence; and there is ’no comforter,’ Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:9, Lamentations 1:17, Lamentations... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 1:20

(20) 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 (Psalms 75:8) used of colour, might, perhaps, be better rendered inflamed.At home there is as death.—The “as” seems inserted to give the emphasis of the undefined. It is not death pure and simple that makes each home tremble, but the “plurima mortis imago” (Virg. Aen. ii. 369), the starvation,... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Lamentations 1:1-22

Civic Apathy (a Sermon for Women) Lamentations 1:12 I. The Home-Side of Patriotism. Is it not a serious matter to find such multitudes in all our large towns and cities who have little or no sense of what it means to belong to a great community, who have little or no idea of the life in common and of the responsibility and duty which all share? There are many around us who do not care anything for the problems of a great city; do not indeed realize that there are any problems at all, except... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Lamentations 1:20

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Lamentations 1:20

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Lamentations 1:20

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 1:12-22

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 1:20

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Lamentations 1:20-22

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Lamentations 1:1-22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Lamentations 1:20

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Lamentations 1:1-22

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