Lamentations 3:10
He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
Bible in Basic English
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 put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
Cross References
Psalms 10:9He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
Isaiah 38:13I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
Hosea 6:1Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.
Amos 5:18Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark 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 →