Lamentations 3:11
He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
In Context
10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
Cross References
Job 16:12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
Jeremiah 6:8Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”
Jeremiah 19:8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
Jeremiah 51:20“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
Daniel 2:40Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; for iron shatters and crushes all things, and like iron that crushes all things, it will shatter and crush all the others.
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 →