Lamentations 3:11
He pursued me after I departed, 1 And brought me to a stand: 1 He has utterly ruined me. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
In Context
10He has troubled me, 1 As a she-bear lying in wait: 1 He is to me as a lion in secret places. 1
12He has bent his bow, 1 And set me as a mark for the arrow. 1
Cross References
Job 16:12When I was at peace he distracted me: 1 He took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: 1 He set me up as a mark. 1
Isaiah 3:26And the stores of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be leveled with the ground.
Jeremiah 6:8Thou shalt be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.
Jeremiah 19:8And I will bring this city to desolation and make it a hissing; everyone that passes by it shall scowl, and hiss because of all her plague.
Jeremiah 51:20Then Jeremiah answered all the people, the mighty men, and the women, and all the people that returned him these words for answer, saying,
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 →