Lamentations 1:13

Lamentations 1:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)“From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“From above He has sent fire into my bones, And it overpowered them; He has spread a net for my feet And turned me back; He has made me desolate And faint all the day.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“He has sent fire from heaven that burns in my bones. He has placed a trap in my path and turned me back. He has left me devastated, racked with sickness all day long.

Context of Lamentations 1:13

11All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. "Look, O Lord, and see, for I am despised." 12"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger. "From on high he sent fire; into my bones he made it descend; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all the day long. 14"My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck; he caused my strength to fail; the Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand. 15"The Lord rejected all my mighty men in my midst; he summoned an assembly against me to crush my young men; the Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.

Lamentations 1:13 word by word

מִמָּר֛וֹם שָֽׁלַח־אֵ֥שׁ בְּעַצְמֹתַ֖י וַיִּרְדֶּ֑נָּה פָּרַ֨שׂ רֶ֤שֶׁת לְרַגְלַי֙ הֱשִׁיבַ֣נִי אָח֔וֹר נְתָנַ֙נִי֙ שֹֽׁמֵמָ֔ה כָּל־הַיּ֖וֹם דָּוָֽה׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• From aboveמָרוֹםmârôm · heightH4791
• hath he sentשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: departH7971
• fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784
• into my bonesעֶ֫צֶם‛etsem · boneH6106
• and it prevailethרָדָהrâdâh · to ruleH7287
• against them: he hath spreadפָּרַשׂpâraώ · to spreadH6566
• a netרֶ֫שֶׁתresheth · netH7568
• for my feetרֶ֫גֶלregel · footH7272
• he hath turnedשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• me backאָחוֹר'âchôr 'âchôr · backH268
• he hath madeנָתַןnâthan · to give: makeH5414
• me desolateשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: destroyedH8074
• faintדָּוֶהdâveh · sickH1739
• all the dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117

Cross-references for Lamentations 1:13

• Lamentations 2:3He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around.
• Deuteronomy 32:21They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
• Job 30:30My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
• Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
• Psalms 31:10For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
• Psalms 102:3For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
• Nahum 1:6Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.
• Habakkuk 3:16I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.
• 2 Thessalonians 1:8in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
• Hebrews 12:29for our God is a consuming fire.
• Lamentations 4:17Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
• Job 18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
• Job 19:6know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.
• Psalms 66:11You brought us into the net; you laid a crushing burden on our backs;
• Ezekiel 12:13And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.
• Ezekiel 17:20I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.

Commentaries on Lamentations 1:13

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12-16Verses 12-16 The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate. Lamentations 1:13 It prevaileth - Or, hath subdued. He hath turned me back - Judaea, like a hunted animal, endeavors to escape, but finds every outlet blocked by nets, and recoils from them with terror and a sense of utter hopelessness. Lamentations 1:14 Bound by his hand - As the plowman binds the yoke upon the neck of oxen, so God compels Judah to bear the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-22Verses 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 sufferings of Jerusalem, far…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13The destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians was sudden and overwhelming, like a fire sent from heaven (that is, destruction believed to come from God).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. bones--a fire which not only consumes the skin and flesh, but penetrates even to my "bones" (that is, my vital powers). prevaileth against--not as Rosenmuller, "He (Jehovah) hath broken them"; a sense not in the Hebrew. net--(Eze 12:13); image from hunting wild beasts. He has so entangled me in His judgments that I cannot escape. turned me back--so that I cannot go forward and get free from His meshes. Nun.Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Faint
• Poetry
• Acrostic
• Alphabet
• Bone; Bones
• Lamentations, Book of
• Poetry, Hebrew
• Proverbs, the Book of

Commentaries on Lamentations 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings