Lamentations 3:11
Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
12Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
Cross References
Job 16:12God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
Isaiah 3:26And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall sit desolate on the ground.
Jeremiah 6:8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.
Jeremiah 19:8And I will make this city an astonishent, and a hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
Jeremiah 51:20Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms:
Daniel 2:40And the fourth kingdom shall be as iron. As iron breaketh into pieces, and subdueth all things, so shall that break and destroy 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 →