Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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— (Hosea 11:8); 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 (II Kings 25:3; Jeremiah 14:18; Jeremiah 52:6). So Habakkuk 2:5, "as death" [MICHAELIS].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Lamentations 1:20:
Ezekiel 7:15
Hosea 11:8
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