Lamentations 1:13

From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

Cross-reference

In Lamentations 1:22, the speaker calls for the same judgment described in v.13 to fall on her enemies, directly echoing the punishment.

Lamentations 2:4 also depicts God as an enemy pouring out fury like fire, reinforcing the same divine wrath here.

Lamentations 2:3 continues the fire imagery from this verse — God's judgment burns against Jacob like a flaming fire.

Lamentations 4:17-20 describes being trapped and pursued without rescue, echoing the net and being turned back in 1:13 within the same siege context.

In Lamentations 3:11, the same image of God turning aside the speaker's way and tearing him appears, reinforcing the theme of divine judgment.

Job 18:8 Parallel

Job 18:8 also speaks of a net for the feet, using the identical metaphor for being ensnared by one's own actions or by God's judgment.

Habakkuk 3:16 adds rottenness entering bones, trembling, and waiting — a similar visceral reaction to divine presence and judgment.

Hosea 7:12 Parallel

In Hosea 7:12, God throws a net over Israel's leaders to catch them, paralleling Lamentations' net as divine judgment.

In Ezekiel 32:3, God spreads a net for Pharaoh—the same metaphor of judgment by net as in Lamentations.

In Ezekiel 17:20, God spreads a net for the king who broke the covenant, mirroring Lamentations' net imagery for divine entrapment.

In Ezekiel 12:13, God spreads a net for the prince of Judah, using the same judgment image as Lamentations' net for Jerusalem's feet.

Psalm 102:3-5 intensifies the fire imagery: bones burn like a furnace, linking physical torment to groaning and faintness, just as in Lamentations.

Psalm 66:11 Parallel

Psalm 66:11 recalls God bringing Israel into a net with a heavy burden, mirroring the net imagery and divine testing behind Lamentations' suffering.

Psalm 31:10 Parallel

Psalm 31:10 echoes the same physical decay — bones wasting away from sorrow and iniquity — reinforcing the personal anguish of divine judgment.

Job 30:30 Parallel

Job 30:30 shares the same image of burning bones — both describe profound physical agony as judgment or trial.

Job 19:6 Parallel

Job 19:6 explicitly says God closed His net around Job — the same divine trapping imagery as the net spread for feet in Lamentations.

Deuteronomy 32:21–25 Prophetic fulfillment

Deuteronomy 32:21-25 foretells the covenant curses — fire and arrows — that Lamentations 1:13 describes as already inflicted on Jerusalem.

Isaiah 30:27 depicts the LORD’s anger as devouring fire descending from afar—the same image of divine fire sent in judgment.

Proverbs 29:5 uses the identical phrase 'spreads a net for his feet' to describe a flatterer's trap—here God is the one who traps.

Jeremiah 4:19-29 portrays anguished weeping over Judah’s devastation by fire and invasion, mirroring the divine judgment here.

2 Thessalonians 1:8 uses flaming fire for eschatological vengeance, connecting the same divine judgment imagery to the New Testament's final reckoning.

Hebrews 12:29 declares God is a consuming fire — a principle that underlies the fire sent into bones in Lamentations, linking covenant warning to judgment.

Psalm 22:14 Parallel

Psalm 22:14 depicts bones out of joint and heart melting, echoing the bone-penetrating fire in this verse.

Nahum 1:6 Parallel

Nahum 1:6 broadens the fire of God's wrath to a universal scale — no one can endure it — while Lamentations personalizes the same consuming fire.