Lamentaciones 1:15

15 A todos mis valientes ha rechazado el Señor de en medio de mí; ha convocado contra mí un tiempo determinado para quebrantar a mis jóvenes; el Señor ha hollado como en un lagar a la virgen hija de Judá.

Lamentaciones 1:15 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 1:15

The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the
midst of me
As a causeway is trodden; or as mire is trodden under foot in the streets; so were the mighty and valiant men, the soldiers and men of war, trodden under foot and destroyed by the Chaldeans in the streets of Jerusalem, and in the midst of Judea; the Lord so permitting it: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men;
the army of the Chaldeans, which were brought against Jerusalem by a divine appointment and call; against whom the choicest and stoutest of them, even their young men, could not stand; but were crushed and broken to pieces by them. The word for "assembly" sometimes signifies an appointed time; a time fixed for solemn festivals, and for calling the people to them; and so the Targum here,

``he hath called or appointed a time to break the strength of my young men;''

the time of Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [as] in a
winepress;
in the winepress of his wrath; or however in the winepress of the Babylonians, who are compared to one; into whose hands the Jews falling, were like grapes cast into a winepress, and there trodden by men, in order to squeeze and get out the wine; and in like manner were their blood squeezed out of them and shed. The Targum interprets it of the blood of virginity being poured out, as wine in a press; the virgins of Judah being ravished and defiled by the enemy.

Lamentaciones 1:15 In-Context

13 Desde lo alto El envió fuego que penetró en mis huesos. Ha tendido una red a mis pies, me ha hecho volver atrás, me ha dejado desolada, desfallecida todo el día.

14 Atado ha sido el yugo de mis transgresiones, por su mano han sido entrelazadas, han caído sobre mi cuello. El ha hecho que me falten las fuerzas; el Señor me ha entregado en manos contra las cuales no puedo resistir.

15 A todos mis valientes ha rechazado el Señor de en medio de mí; ha convocado contra mí un tiempo determinado para quebrantar a mis jóvenes; el Señor ha hollado como en un lagar a la virgen hija de Judá.

16 Por estas cosas lloro yo; mi ojo, mi ojo derrama agua, porque lejos de mí está el consolador, el que reanima mi alma. Mis hijos están desolados porque ha prevalecido el enemigo.

17 Sion extiende sus manos, no hay quien la consuele. El SEÑOR ha ordenado contra Jacob que los que lo rodean sean sus adversarios; Jerusalén se ha vuelto cosa inmunda en medio de ellos.