Lamentations 3:11
It is as though he has dragged me off the path and ◄mauled me/torn me into pieces►, and left me without help.
Translation for Translators
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 waited to attack me like [SIM] a bear or a lion hides and waits to attack other animals.
Cross References
Job 16:12Previously, I was living peacefully, but he crushed me; it is as though he grabbed my neck and smashed me to pieces. It is as though [MET] he set me up like a target;
Isaiah 3:26People [PRS] will mourn and cry at the gates of the city. The city will be like [MET] a woman who sits on the ground because everything that she owned is gone.
Jeremiah 6:8Listen to what I am warning you, you people of [APO] Jerusalem, because if you do not listen, I will reject you and cause your land to become desolate, a land where no one lives.”
Jeremiah 19:8I will completely destroy Jerusalem and cause it to become a heap of ruins that people will despise. All the people who pass by will be appalled, and they will be shocked when they see that the city has been destroyed.
Jeremiah 51:20Yahweh says about the army of Babylonia (OR, about a nation that will attack Babylonia), “You have been like [MET] my battle-axe and war-club; with your power I have shattered nations and destroyed many kingdoms.
Daniel 2:40After that kingdom ends, there will be a fourth great kingdom. The iron parts of the statue represent that kingdom. The army of that kingdom will smash the previous kingdoms, just like iron smashes everything that it strikes.
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 →