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Lamentations 3:11

Discouragement and depression

9 He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

10 He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

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.

13 He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

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Compare

BSB
He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
KJV
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
WEB
He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
ASV
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
DARBY
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
BLB
my ways He has turned aside, and has torn me apart; He has set me as a desolation.
ÅB
Mine veier gjorde han til avveier, han sønderrev meg og ødela meg.
OTB
Han har ført meg bort fra stien og revet meg i stykker, etterlatt meg øde.
B1930
Mine veier gjorde han til avveier, han sønderrev mig og ødela mig.

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.

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  • Job 16:12–13

    I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

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  • Lamentations 1:13

    He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

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  • Daniel 7:23

    This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down, and crush it.

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  • Jeremiah 19:8

    I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

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  • Jeremiah 9:10–11

    I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

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  • Jeremiah 5:6

    Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.

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  • Jeremiah 51:20–22

    “You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

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