Lamentations 3:11
My ways He is turning aside, and He pulls me in pieces, || He has made me a desolation.
Literal Standard Version
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 He [is] to me, || A lion in secret hiding places.
12He has bent His bow, || And sets me up as a mark for an arrow.
Cross References
Job 16:12I have been at ease, and He breaks me, || And He has laid hold on my neck, || And He breaks me in pieces, || And He raises me to Him for a mark.
Isaiah 3:26And her openings have lamented and mourned, || Indeed, she has been emptied, she sits on the earth!”
Jeremiah 6:8Be instructed, O Jerusalem, || Lest My soul be alienated from you, || Lest I make you a desolation, || A land [that is] not inhabited.”
Jeremiah 19:8and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, everyone passing by it is astonished, and hisses for all its plagues.
Jeremiah 51:20You [are] My shatterer—weapons of war, || And I have broken in pieces nations by you, || And I have destroyed kingdoms by you,
Daniel 2:40And the fourth kingdom is strong as iron, because that iron is breaking small, and making feeble, all [things], even as iron that is breaking all these, it beats small and breaks.
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 →