Verse 11
GOD HAS BOUND THE YOKE OF MY SINS UPON ME
"See, O Jehovah, and Behold, for I am abject.
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?
Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow,
which is brought upon me,
Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
From on high 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.
The yoke of my transgression is bound by his hand;
They are knit together, they are come upon my neck;
he hath made my strength to fail:
The Lord hath delivered me into their hands,
Against whom I am not able to stand."
"From here to the end of the chapter the emphasis is upon God's responsibility in the things that have happened to Jerusalem."[21]
"In the day of his fierce anger" (Lamentations 1:12). This day had already arrived for Jerusalem, but there is also a consciousness here of a similar day that shall arrive for the pagan nations that have humiliated Jerusalem; and the last half of the chapter will also emphasize that fact. "Most modern commentators ignore the severity of the divine nature. They fail to see that real goodness does not indulge evil."[22]
"The yoke of my transgressions ... are come upon my neck" (Lamentations 1:14). "This is a powerful example of a people reaping what they have sown."[23] In the days of their kings, as for example in the case of Solomon, they had enslaved the residue of the peoples of Canaan; now they themselves were enslaved. The metaphor employed here is from the plowman. "As he binds the yoke upon the necks of the oxen, so God compels Judah (and all men) to bear the burden of their sins."[24]
"These words are a torrential flood of pent-up emotions; but there is no resentment; she freely confesses that she has rebelled against God, allowing that he is in the right; and she appeals to him as her only hope."[25]
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