Lamentations 3:3
ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
In Context
2ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.
4BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20But the Lord would not ignore him. Instead, at that time, his fury and zealousness would be very greatly enflamed against that man, and all the curses which have been written in this volume would settle upon him. And the Lord would abolish his name from under heaven,
Job 16:12God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
Job 31:21if I have lifted up my hand over an orphan, even when it might seem to me that I have the advantage over him at the gate;
Isaiah 5:25For this reason, the fury of the Lord has been enraged against his people, and he has extended his hand over them, and he has struck them. And the mountains were disturbed. And their carcasses became like dung in the midst of the streets. After all this, his fury was not turned away; instead, his hand was still extended.
Lamentations 2:4DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.
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 →