Lamentations 3:47
Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
In Context
46The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.
48Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Cross References
Isaiah 24:18And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.
Jeremiah 48:43Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord.
Lamentations 1:13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.
Luke 21:35For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 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. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →