Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Lamentations 1:20
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Lamentations1:20
20. bowels ... troubled--(Job 30:27; Is 16:11; Jr 4:19; 31:20). Extreme mental distress affects the bowels and the whole internal frame.
heart ... turned--(Ho 11:8); is agitated or fluttered.
abroad ... sword ... at home ... as death--(De 32:25; Eze 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 (2Ki 25:3; Jr 14:18; 52:6). So Ha 2:5, "as death" [Michaelis].
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