Lamentations 3:11
DALETH. He has subverted my paths, and he has broken me. He has placed me in desolation.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
In Context
10DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding.
12DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.
Cross References
Job 16:12God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
Isaiah 3:26And her gates will grieve and mourn. And she will sit on the ground, desolate.
Jeremiah 6:8O Jerusalem, accept instruction, lest perhaps my soul may withdraw from you; lest perhaps I may set you in a desert, in an uninhabitable land.”
Jeremiah 19:8And I will set this city amid stupor and hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be stupefied, and they will hiss over all its wounds.
Jeremiah 51:20“For me, you strike together the instruments of war; and with you, I will strike together nations; and with you, I will scatter the kingdoms.
Daniel 2:40And the fourth kingdom will be like iron. Just as iron shatters and conquers all things, so will it shatter and crush all these.
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 →