Lamentations 3:10
A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, || A lion in secret hiding places.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
In Context
9He has hedged my ways with hewn work, || My paths He has made crooked.
11My ways He is turning aside, and He pulls me in pieces, || He has made me a desolation.
Cross References
Psalms 10:9He lies in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lies in wait to catch the poor, || He catches the poor, drawing him into his net.
Isaiah 38:13I have set [Him] as a lion until morning, || So He breaks all my bones, || From day to night You end me.
Hosea 6:1“Come, and we turn back to YHWH, || For He has torn, and He heals us, || He strikes, and He binds us up.
Amos 5:18Behold, you who are desiring the Day of YHWH, || Why [is] this to you—the Day of YHWH? It is darkness, and not light,
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 →