Lamentations 3:10
8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9 He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
11 He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
12 He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
- KJV
- He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
- WEB
- He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
- ASV
- He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
- DARBY
- He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.
- BLB
- A bear lying in ambush He [is] to me, a lion in hiding places;
- ÅB
- En lurende bjørn var han mot meg, en løve i skjul.
- OTB
- Han er som en bjørn som lurer i vente, som en løve i skjul.
- B1930
- En lurende bjørn var han mot mig, en løve i skjul.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hosea 6:1
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
Read in contextPsalms 10:9
He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
Read in contextAmos 5:18–20
Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
Read in contextJob 10:16
Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
Read in contextHosea 5:14
For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.
Read in contextHosea 13:7–8
So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:13
I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
Read in contextPsalms 17:12
like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
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