Lamentations 1 · Verse 14

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 1:14, King James Version

Lamentations 1:14 in other translations

BSBMy transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
WEB“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
ASVThe yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
YLTBound hath been the yoke of my transgressions by His hand, They are wrapped together, They have gone up on my neck, He hath caused my power to stumble, The Lord hath given me into hands, I am not able to rise.
DARBYThe yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail; the Lord hath delivered me into hands out of which I am not able to rise up.
BBEA watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.
WebsterThe 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.

What does Lamentations 1:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. yoke ... is bound by his hand--(De 28:48). Metaphor from husbandmen, who, after they have bound the yoke to the neck of oxen, hold the rein firmly twisted round the hand. Thus the translation will be, "in His hand." Or else, "the yoke of my transgressions" (that is, of punishment for my transgressions) is held so fast fixed on me "by" God, that there is no loosening of it; thus English Version, "by His hand." wreathed--My sins are like the withes entwined about the neck to fasten the yoke to. into their hands, from whom--into the hands of those, from whom, &c. Maurer translates, "before whom I am not able to stand." Samech.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 The yoke of my transgressions - I am now tied and bound by the chain of my sins; and it is so wreathed, so doubled and twisted round me, that I cannot free myself. A fine representation of the miseries of a penitent soul, which feels that nothing but the pitifulness of God's mercy can loose it.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · 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…

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Lamentations 1:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

נִשְׂקַד֩nis.Kadit has been bound onH8244
עֹ֨ל'ol[the] yoke ofH5923
פְּשָׁעַ֜יpe.sha.'Aitransgressions myH6588
בְּיָד֗וֹbe.ya.Doby hand hisH3027
יִשְׂתָּֽרְג֛וּyis.Ta.re.Guthey are woven togetherH8276
עָל֥וּ'a.Luthey have come upH5927
עַל\־'al-onH5921
צַוָּארִ֖יtza.va.Rineck myH6677
הִכְשִׁ֣ילhikh.Shilhe has made feebleH3782
כֹּחִ֑יko.Chistrength myH3581
נְתָנַ֣נִיne.ta.Na.nihe has given meH5414
אֲדֹנָ֔י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136
בִּידֵ֖יbi.Deiin [the] hands ofH3027
לֹא\־lo'-[those whom] notH3808
אוּכַ֥ל'u.KhalI am ableH3201
קֽוּם\׃\ \סKumto standH6965

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Lamentations 1:14

  • Isaiah 47:6

    I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

  • Deuteronomy 28:48

    Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

  • Ezekiel 25:7

    Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

  • Ezekiel 25:4

    Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.

  • Jeremiah 28:14

    For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.

  • Proverbs 5:22

    His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

  • Jeremiah 34:20-21

    I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which are gone up from you.

  • Hosea 5:14

    For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

  • Ezekiel 21:31

    And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.

  • Jeremiah 27:12

    I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

  • Jeremiah 32:5

    And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the Lord: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.

  • Ezekiel 23:28

    For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
yoke.
De 28:48; Pr 5:22; Isa 14:25; 47:6; Jer 27:8,12; 28:14
delivered.
Jer 25:9; 34:20,21; 37:17; 39:1-9; Eze 11:9; 21:31; 23:28; 25:4,7
Ho 5:14

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Context

  • 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 1:15

    The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

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Lamentations 1:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
El yugo de mis rebeliones está ligado por su mano, enlazadas han subido sobre mi cerviz: ha hecho caer mis fuerzas: hame entregado el Señor en sus manos, contra quienes no podré levantarme.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Le joug de mes transgressions est lié par sa main; elles sont entrelacées, elles montent sur mon cou; il a fait défaillir ma force; le Seigneur m’a livrée en des mains d’où je ne puis me relever.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Angeschirrt durch seine Hand ist das Joch meiner Übertretungen: Sie haben sich verflochten, sind auf meinen Hals gekommen; er hat meine Kraft gebrochen Der Herr hat mich in Hände gegeben, daß ich mich nicht aufrichten kann
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Vigilavit jugum iniquitatum mearum; in manu ejus convolutæ sunt, et impositæ collo meo. Infirmata est virtus mea: dedit me Dominus in manu de qua non potero surgere.