Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 1:20
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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 ; Jeremiah 52:6 ). So Habakkuk 2:5 , "as death" [MICHAELIS]. Schin. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-21" class="com-number"
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