Lamentations 3:11
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
12He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Cross References
Job 16:12I was at ease, and He broke me asunder; yea, He hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces; He hath also set me up for His mark.
Isaiah 3:26And her gates shall lament and mourn; and utterly bereft she shall sit upon the ground.
Jeremiah 6:8Be thou corrected, O Jerusalem, lest My soul be alienated from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Jeremiah 19:8and I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof;
Jeremiah 51:20Thou art My maul and weapons of war, and with thee will I shatter the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
Daniel 2:40And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron; forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and beateth down all things; and as iron that crusheth all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.
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 →