Lam 1:20 | JFB | STEP | 20. bowels ... troubled-- ( ; ; ; ). Extreme mental distress affects the bowels and the whole internal frame. heart ... turned-- ( ); is agitated or fluttered. abroad ... sword ... at home ... as death-- ( ; ). 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 ( ; ; ). So , "as death" [Michaelis]. Schin.

‏ Lamentations 1:20

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].

Schin.