Lamentations 1:3 BSB

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

BSB

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ASV

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

KJV

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Because of ... - i. e. the people, not of Jerusalem only, but of the whole land, “is gone into exile to escape from the affliction and laborious servitude,” to which they are subject in their own land. Persecutors ... between the straits - Rather, “pursuers ... in the midst of her straits.” The Jews flee like deer to escape from the invading Chaldaeans, but are driven by them into places from where there is no escape.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

(Jer 52:27). because of great servitude--that is, in a state "of great servitude," endured from the Chaldeans. "Because" is made by VATABLUS indicative of the cause of her captivity; namely, her having "afflicted" and unjustly brought into "servitude" the manumitted bond-servants (Jer 34:8-22).

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
גָּֽלְתָ֨ה	gal.Tah	she has gone into exile	H1540 →
יְהוּדָ֤ה	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →
מֵעֹ֙נִי֙	me.'O.ni	from affliction	H6040 →
וּמֵרֹ֣ב	u.me.Ro	and from an abundance of	H7230 →
עֲבֹדָ֔ה	'a.vo.Dah	servitude	H5656 →
הִ֚יא	hi'	her	H1931 →
יָשְׁבָ֣ה	ya.she.Vah	she dwells	H3427 →
בַגּוֹיִ֔ם	va.go.Yim	among the nations	H1471 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
מָצְאָ֖ה	ma.tze.'Ah	she has found	H4672 →
מָנ֑וֹחַ	ma.No.ach	a resting place	H4494 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
רֹדְפֶ֥יהָ	ro.de.Fei.ha	pursuers her	H7291 →
הִשִּׂיג֖וּהָ	hi.si.Gu.ha	they have overtaken her	H5381 →
בֵּ֥ין	bein	between	H996 →
הַמְּצָרִֽים׃ ס	ha.me.tza.Rim	the narrow places	H4712 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Lamentations 2:9
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find…
leads to
- Ezekiel 7:26
  Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
- Hosea 3:4
  For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
- Psalms 74:9
  There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
- Nehemiah 1:3
  And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
- Micah 3:6–7
  Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
Through
Jeremiah 39:9
Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.
leads to
- Jeremiah 40:1
  This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem…
- Genesis 37:36
  Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
- 2 Kings 25:20
  Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.