Lamentations 3:11
He dragged me from my path and ripped me to pieces, leaving me helpless.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
In Context
10He is a bear that lies in wait for me, a lion in hiding ready to attack,
12He loaded his bow with an arrow and used me as his target,
Cross References
Job 16:12I was living in peace and he smashed me to pieces. He grabbed me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target.
Isaiah 3:26The gates of Zion will cry and mourn. The city will be like a banished woman sitting on the ground.
Jeremiah 6:8I'm warning you, people of Jerusalem, I'm going to give up on you in disgust. I will destroy you and leave your country uninhabited.
Jeremiah 19:8I'm going to make this city desolate, a place that is mocked. Everyone who passes by will be horrified, shocked by all its damage.
Jeremiah 51:20You are my war club, the weapon I use in battle. I use you to destroy nations; I use you to destroy kingdoms.
Daniel 2:40The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron and in the same way that iron crushes and smashes everything—it will crush and smash all others.
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 →