Lamentations 3:10
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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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, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Read in contextPsalms 10:9
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Read in contextAmos 5:18–20
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Read in contextJob 10:16
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Read in contextHosea 5:14
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
Read in contextHosea 13:7–8
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
Read in contextIsaiah 38:13
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Read in contextPsalms 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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