Lamentations 3:11
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
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.
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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, 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 contextJob 16:12–13
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Read in contextLamentations 1:13
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Read in contextDaniel 7:23
Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
Read in contextJeremiah 19:8
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:10–11
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Read in contextJeremiah 5:6
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Read in contextJeremiah 51:20–22
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
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