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Lamentations 1

Lam. 1:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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From above
marowm (Hebrew #4791)
altitude, i.e. concretely (an elevated place), abstractly (elevation, figuratively (elation), or adverbially (aloft)
KJV usage: (far) above, dignity, haughty, height, (most, on) high (one, place), loftily, upward.
Pronounce: maw-rome'
Origin: from 7311
hath he sent
shalach (Hebrew #7971)
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, X earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Pronounce: shaw-lakh'
Origin: a primitive root
fire
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
into my bones
`etsem (Hebrew #6106)
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
KJV usage: body, bone, X life, (self-)same, strength, X very.
Pronounce: eh'tsem
Origin: from 6105
, and it prevaileth
radah (Hebrew #7287)
to tread down, i.e. subjugate; specifically, to crumble off
KJV usage: (come to, make to) have dominion, prevail against, reign, (bear, make to) rule,(-r, over), take.
Pronounce: raw-daw'
Origin: a primitive root
against them: he hath spread
paras (Hebrew #6566)
to break apart, disperse, etc.
KJV usage: break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).
Pronounce: paw-ras'
Origin: a primitive root
a net
resheth (Hebrew #7568)
a net (as catching animals)
KJV usage: net(- work).
Pronounce: reh'-sheth
Origin: from 3423
i for my feet
regel (Hebrew #7272)
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphem. the pudenda
KJV usage: X be able to endure, X according as, X after, X coming, X follow, ((broken-))foot((-ed, -stool)), X great toe, X haunt, X journey, leg, + piss, + possession, time.
Pronounce: reh'-gel
Origin: from 7270
, he hath turned
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
me back
'achowr (Hebrew #268)
from 299; the hinder part; hence (adverb) behind, backward; also (as facing north) the West
KJV usage: after(-ward), back (part, -side, -ward), hereafter, (be-)hind(-er part), time to come, without.
Pronounce: aw-khore'
Origin: or (shortened) achor {aw-khore'}
: he hath made
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
me desolate
shamem (Hebrew #8074)
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
KJV usage: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
Pronounce: shaw-mame'
Origin: a primitive root
and faint
daveh (Hebrew #1739)
sick (especially in menstruation)
KJV usage: faint, menstruous cloth, she that is sick, having sickness.
Pronounce: daw-veh'
Origin: from 1738
all the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
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Lam. 2:3‑4• 3He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel:{HR}He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy,{HR}And he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
4He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary,{HR}And slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion:{HR}He poured out his fury like fire.
(Lam. 2:3‑4)
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Deut. 32:21‑25• 21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no God;{HR}They have exasperated me with their vanities;{HR}And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people;{HR}With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.{HR}
22For a fire is kindled in mine anger,{HR}And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol,{HR}And shall consume the earth and its produce,{HR}And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.{HR}
23I will heap mischiefs upon them;{HR}Mine arrows will I spend against them.{HR}
24They shall be consumed with hunger,{HR}And devoured with burning heat,{HR}And with poisonous pestilence;{HR}And the teeth of beasts will I send against them,{HR}With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.{HR}
25From without shall the sword bereave them,{HR}And in the chambers, terror{HR}—Both the young man and the virgin,{HR}The suckling with the man of gray hairs.{HR}
(Deut. 32:21‑25)
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Job 30:30• 30My skin off me is black,{HR}And my bones are burned with heat, (Job 30:30)
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Psa. 22:14• 14I have been poured out like water,{HR}And all my bones have been separated;{HR}My heart has become like wax,{HR}It is melted in the midst of my bowels. (Psa. 22:14)
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Psa. 31:10• 10For my life hath been spent in sorrow, and my years in sighing;{HR}My strength hath been feeble through mine iniquity,{HR}And my bones have been consumed. (Psa. 31:10)
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Psa. 102:3‑5• 3For my days are consumed like smoke,{HR}And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
4My heart is smitten as grass and dried up;{HR}For I forget to eat my bread.
5From the voice of my groaning{HR}My bone cleaveth to my flesh.
(Psa. 102:3‑5)
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Nah. 1:6• 6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. (Nah. 1:6)
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Hab. 3:16• 16When I heard, my belly trembled; (Hab. 3:16)
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2 Thess. 1:8• 8in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to those that know not God and to those that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus; (2 Thess. 1:8)
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Heb. 12:29• 29For also our God is a consuming fire. (Heb. 12:29)
he hath spread.
Lam. 4:17‑20• 17As yet for us, our eyes failed for our vain help;{HR}On our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not save us.
18They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets;{HR}Our end was near, our days were fulfilled, for our end had come.
19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven:{HR}They pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits,{HR}Of whom was said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
(Lam. 4:17‑20)
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Job 18:8• 8For by his feet is he driven into a net,{HR}And he walketh over the meshes; (Job 18:8)
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Job 19:6• 6Know now that God hath wrested me,{HR}And compassed me round with his net. (Job 19:6)
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Psa. 66:11• 11Thou hast brought us into the net,{HR}Thou hast put pressure upon our loins. (Psa. 66:11)
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Ezek. 12:13• 13My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. (Ezek. 12:13)
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Ezek. 17:20• 20And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me. (Ezek. 17:20)
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Ezek. 32:3• 3Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. (Ezek. 32:3)
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Hos. 7:12• 12As they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. (Hos. 7:12)
he hath turned.
desolate.
Lam. 1:22• 22Let all their wickedness come before thee;{HR}And do unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions:{HR}For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. (Lam. 1:22)
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Lam. 5:17• 17Because of this our heart is faint; for these our eyes are dim; (Lam. 5:17)
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Deut. 28:65• 65And among these nations shalt thou have no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place, and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart, languishing of the eyes, and pining of the soul. (Deut. 28:65)
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Jer. 4:19‑29• 19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is wasted: suddenly are my tents laid waste, my curtains, in a moment.
21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of Jehovah, and by his fierce anger.
27For thus saith Jehovah: The whole land shall be a desolation; but I will not make a full end.
28For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back therefrom.
29At the noise of the horsemen and bowmen, every city fleeth; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken and no man dwelleth therein.
(Jer. 4:19‑29)

J. N. Darby Translation

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From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevailethb 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.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "he causeth it to prevail."

W. Kelly Translation

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From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them:{HR}He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back:{HR}He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.