Lamentations 3:47
45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction.
- KJV
- Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
- WEB
- Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
- ASV
- Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
- DARBY
- Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.
- BLB
- terror and pitfall have come upon us, desolation and destruction!
- ÅB
- Gru og grav er blitt oss til del, ødeleggelse og undergang.
- OTB
- Vi har møtt panikk og fallgruver, ødeleggelse og undergang.
- B1930
- Gru og grav er blitt oss til del, ødeleggelse og undergang.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 24:17–18
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Read in contextIsaiah 51:19
These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
Read in contextJeremiah 48:43–44
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
Read in contextLamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
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 contextLamentations 2:1–9
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Read in contextLuke 21:35
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
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