THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
"Alas, we are overwhelmed." Yet Jerusalem grieved deeply as its adversaries derided it; this, he stated, was executed by Your power.
Lamentations 1:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Res. Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth and at home there is death alike.
רְאֵ֨ה יְהוָ֤ה כִּֽי־צַר־לִי֙ מֵעַ֣י חֳמַרְמָ֔רוּ נֶהְפַּ֤ךְ לִבִּי֙ בְּקִרְבִּ֔י כִּ֥י מָר֖וֹ מָרִ֑יתִי מִח֥וּץ שִׁכְּלָה־חֶ֖רֶב בַּבַּ֥יִת כַּמָּֽוֶת׃
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Lam 2:11Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city.
- Deut 32:25Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.
- Isa 16:11Wherefore my bowels shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for the brick wall.
- Ezek 7:15The sword without: and the pestilence, and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword: and they that are in the city, shall be devoured by the pestilence, and the famine.
- Jer 4:19My bowels, my bowels are in part, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.
- Job 30:27My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.
- Lev 26:40Until they confess their iniquities, and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed against me, and walked contrary unto me.
- Lev 26:42And I will remember my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will remember also the land: