Lamentations 1:20

With description of her distress Zion combines prayer, appealing to Jehovah for redress.

my bowels See on Jeremiah 31:20.

are troubled lit. are in a ferment.

is turned cannot rest, is violently agitated.

at home there is as death As violent death is imminent for those who stir abroad, so even those who remain within are like to die of pestilence. See Jeremiah 9:21, and for note on this special sense of death Jeremiah 15:2. The "as" (in Heb. a consonantal prefix) is hard to interpret and should perhaps be omitted.