Lamentations 3:47
Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 against us.
48Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Cross References
Isaiah 24:18And it shall come to pass, that he that shall flee from the noise of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid himself out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the flood-gates from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.
Jeremiah 48:43Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.
Lamentations 1:13Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long.
Luke 21:35For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of the whole 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 →