Lamentations 3:11
By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
In Context
10He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
12With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
Cross References
Job 16:12I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
Isaiah 3:26And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
Jeremiah 6:8Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.
Jeremiah 19:8And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.
Jeremiah 51:20You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;
Daniel 2:40And the fourth kingdom will be strong as iron: because, as all things are broken and overcome by iron, so it will have the power of crushing and smashing down all the earth.
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 →