Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 1:14

14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand : they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck : he hath made my strength to fall; the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up .

Still the Prophet eyeth God in all, and acknowledgeth his Justice while he calls their afflictions the yoke of their transgressions, that is, which was put upon their neck, upon the same account that yokes are put about the necks of beasts that use to break hedges, &c. and bound to keep them fast.

My punishments are twisted as Cords, to make them more strong; I have a complication of judgments upon me, Sword, Famine, Pestilence, Captivity, they are not onely prepared for my neck, but they are already put upon it.

All my valiant men the strength of my nation is broken, and I am so fallen that I am not able to rise again.