Lamentations 3:11
On my ways hath he placed thorns, and torn me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
In Context
10A bear lying in wait is he to me, a lion in secret places.
12He hath bent his bow, and placed me as a mark for the arrow.
Cross References
Job 16:12I was at ease, but he hath crushed me; he hath also grasped me by the neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up unto himself as a mark;
Isaiah 3:26And then shall her gates lament and mourn; and stript of all shall she sit upon the ground.
Jeremiah 6:8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, that my soul tear itself not away from thee; that I render thee not desolate, a land which is not inhabited.
Jeremiah 19:8And I will render this city desolate, and an [object of] derision: every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
Jeremiah 51:20Thou art a hammer unto me, weapons of war; and I strike down with thee nations, and I destroy with thee kingdoms;
Daniel 2:40And the fourth kingdom will be as strong as iron; forasmuch as iron grindeth up and beateth down all things, and as iron that breaketh [every thing], will it grind up and break 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 →