Lamentations 3:47
Terror and a snare are come upon us, [with] desolation and breaches.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
In Context
46Wide have all our enemies opened against us their mouth.
48With streams of water runneth my eye down, because of the breach of the daughter of my people.
Cross References
Isaiah 24:18And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the call of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be caught in the snare; for the windows from on high are opened, and there quaked the foundations of the earth.
Jeremiah 48:43Terror, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.
Lamentations 1:13From on high hath he sent a fire into my bones, and breaketh [them] one by one: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath caused me to return backward; he hath made me desolate, sick all the day.
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 →