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From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
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God's Sovereign Judgment
Commentators agree that the vivid imagery of 'fire from on high' and a 'net' for the feet points directly to God as the source of Jerusalem's suffering. Scholars like Calvin and Gill stress that this is not a random human event but a deliberate, sovereign act of divine judgment, highlighting its inescapable nature and overwhelming power.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The lamentation of the city, personified as a woman in grief over her fate.
(Lamentations 1:13)
It prevails - Or, …
19th Century
Anglican
From above ... —The words are probably figurative. The judgments that had fallen on Jerusalem were as a fire from heaven, piercing…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet proceeds with the same subject: that God’s vengeance had raged most dreadfully against Jerusalem. But employing a metaphor, she says th…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
From above has he sent fire into my bones Which the Targum interprets of her fortified cities, towns, or castles; as Jeru…
Jerusalem, sitting dejected on the ground, calls on those that passed by, to consider whether her example did not concern them. Her outward sufferi…
13th Century
Catholic
Here he presents the severity of the discipline, in that he educated them like a schoolmaster with harsh punishments.
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