Lamentations 3:10
He is to me as a bear laying in wait, as a lion in concealed places.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
In Context
9He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.
11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
Cross References
Psalms 10:9He lurks in secret as a lion in his covert. He lays in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net.
Isaiah 38:13I quieted [myself] until morning. As a lion, so he breaks all my bones. From day even to night will thou make an end of me.
Hosea 6:1Come, and let us return to LORD, for he has torn, and he will heal us. He has smitten, and he will bind us up.
Amos 5:18Woe to you who desire the day of LORD! Why would ye have the day of LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →