Lamentations 1:13
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.
Lamentations 1:13 in other translations
| BSB | He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long. |
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| WEB | “From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long. |
| ASV | From on high 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. |
| YLT | From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate--all the day sick. |
| DARBY | From on high 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. |
| BBE | From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Lamentations 1:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 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 were great, but her inward sufferings were harder to bear, through the sense of guilt. Sorrow for sin must be great sorrow, and must affect the soul. Here we see the evil of sin, and may take warning to flee from the wrath to come. Whatever may be learned from the…
Lamentations 1:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 1:13
- Habakkuk 3:16
When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
- Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
- Ezekiel 17:20
And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
- Job 19:6
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
- Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
- Nahum 1:6
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
- Ezekiel 12:13
My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
- Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.
- Psalms 66:11
Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.
- Job 18:8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
- Lamentations 1:22
Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
- Psalms 129:5
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2:3,4; De 32:21-25; Job 30:30; Ps 22:14; 31:10; 102:3-5; Na 1:6
Hab 3:16; 2Th 1:8; Heb 12:29
he hath spread.
4:17-20; Job 18:8; 19:6; Ps 66:11; Eze 12:13; 17:20; 32:3; Ho 7:12
he hath turned.
Ps 35:4; 70:2,3; 129:5; Isa 42:17
desolate.
22; 5:17; De 28:65; Jer 4:19-29
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Context
- Lamentations 1:12
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.
- Lamentations 1:13
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.
- Lamentations 1:14
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations 1:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Desde lo alto envió fuego en mis huesos, el cual se enseñoreó: ha extendido red á mis pies, tornóme atrás, púsome asolada, y que siempre tenga dolor. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | D’en haut il a envoyé dans mes os un feu qui les a maîtrisés; il a tendu un filet pour mes pieds, il m’a fait retourner en arrière; il m’a mise dans la désolation, dans la langueur, tout le jour. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Aus der Höhe hat er ein Feuer in meine Gebeine gesandt, daß es sie überwältigte; ein Netz hat er meinen Füßen ausgebreitet, hat mich zurückgewendet; er hat mich zur Wüste gemacht, siech den ganzen Tag. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | De excelso misit ignem in ossibus meis, et erudivit me: expandit rete pedibus meis, convertit me retrorsum; posuit me desolatam, tota die mœrore confectam. |