Lamentations 1:20
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.”
מֵעֶה
used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extension the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively)
צַר
distress
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צַר
Trouble, distress, enemy. Tsar. One who oppresses or a tight place of difficulty. God is a very present help in trouble. No tsar is too great for Him to deliver you from.
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חֶרֶב
a sword
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חֶרֶב
A sword, a cutting weapon. Chereb. Reckless words wound like a sword. Wise words bring healing. The tongue is more powerful than any physical weapon.
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רָאָה
see
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רָאָה
To see, to look, to perceive. Raah. The LORD sees not as man sees. Man looks on the outward appearance but God looks on the heart.
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לֵב
heart/ my
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לֵב
Heart, mind, will. Leb. The centre of human personality. Guard your heart above all else for everything you do flows from it.
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יְהֹוָה
O Yahweh
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יְהֹוָה
LORD. Yahweh. The covenant name of God. I AM WHO I AM. The self-existent eternal One who was is and always will be.
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מָרָה
I have been rebellious
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מָרָה
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
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חָמַר
they are in turmoil
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חָמַר
properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); to smear with pitch
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שָׁכֹל
it has bereaved
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שָׁכֹל
properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)
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הָפַךְ
it has been overturned
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הָפַךְ
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
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