Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Lamentations 1:13

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Lamentations1:13

13. 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.

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