Lamentations 3:47
Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
In Context
46All our enemies open their mouths against us.
48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Cross References
Isaiah 24:18Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Jeremiah 48:43Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,” declares the LORD.
Lamentations 1:13He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
Luke 21:35For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the 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 →