Lamentations 1:13 “He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a ne…”

Lamentations 1:13

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

“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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“above”

Job 30:30 Habakkuk 3:16 Psalm 22:14 Nahum 1:6 Hebrews 12:29 Deuteronomy 32:21–25

Job 30:30 · BSB

My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

Habakkuk 3:16 · BSB

I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

Psalm 22:14 · BSB

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

Nahum 1:6 · BSB

Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.

Hebrews 12:29 · BSB

“For our God is a consuming fire.”

Deuteronomy 32:21–25 · BSB

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understandin…

“he hath spread”

Job 19:6 Ezekiel 17:20 Psalm 66:11 Ezekiel 12:13 Lamentations 4:17–20 Job 18:8

Job 19:6 · BSB

then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

Ezekiel 17:20 · BSB

I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.

Psalm 66:11 · BSB

You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.

Ezekiel 12:13 · BSB

But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.

Lamentations 4:17–20 · BSB

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

Job 18:8 · BSB

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

“he hath turned”

Psalm 35:4 Psalm 129:5 Isaiah 42:17 Psalm 70:2 Psalm 70:3

Psalm 35:4 · BSB

May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.

Psalm 129:5 · BSB

May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.

Isaiah 42:17 · BSB

But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.

Psalm 70:2 · BSB

May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

Psalm 70:3 · BSB

May those who say, “Aha, aha!” retreat because of their shame.

“desolate”

Lamentations 1:22 Lamentations 5:17 Deuteronomy 28:65 Jeremiah 4:19–29

Lamentations 1:22 · BSB

Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.

Lamentations 5:17 · BSB

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

Deuteronomy 28:65 · BSB

Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Jeremiah 4:19–29 · BSB

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

Also

Jeremiah 44:6

Jeremiah 44:6 · BSB

Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?

14My 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.

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