Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a snare has been for us, || Desolation and destruction.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
In Context
46Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
48Streams of water go down my eye, || For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Cross References
Isaiah 24:18And it has come to pass, || He who is fleeing from the noise of the fear falls into the snare, || And he who is coming up from the midst of the snare, || Is captured by the trap, || For windows have been opened on high, || And foundations of the earth are shaken.
Jeremiah 48:43Fear, and a snare, and a trap, [are] for you, || O inhabitant of Moab—a declaration of YHWH,
Lamentations 1:13From above He has sent fire into my bone, || And it subdues it, He has spread a net for my feet, || He has turned me backward, || He has made me desolate—all the day sick.
Luke 21:35for it will come as a snare on all those dwelling on the face of all the earth,
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 →