Lamentations 3:47
PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
In Context
46PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us.
48PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people.
Cross References
Isaiah 24:18And this shall be: whoever will flee from the voice of dread will fall into the pit. And whoever will extricate himself from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the floodgates from above have been opened, and the foundations of the earth will be shaken.
Jeremiah 48:43Terror and the pit and the snare will overwhelm you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the Lord.
Lamentations 1:13MEM. From on high, he has sent fire into my bones, and he has educated me. He has spread a net for my feet; he has turned me back. He has placed me in desolation, consumed by grief, all day long.
Luke 21:35For like a snare it will overwhelm all those who sit upon the face of the entire 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 →