Lamentations 3:10
He is like a bear waiting to ambush me, a lion in hiding; 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
In Context
9He blocked my path with a wall of hewn stone; he made my paths crooked. 1
11he turned aside my paths, he has made me desolate. 1
Cross References
Psalms 10:9He lurks in secret like a lion in the thicket; 1 he lies in wait to catch the oppressed. 1 He catches the oppressed when he pulls in his net. 1
Isaiah 38:13I cried out + 38:13 The Hebrew could be read: I cried out or I calmed myself . until the morning; 1 like a lion he breaks all my bones. 1 Between day and night you are ending my life. 1
Hosea 6:1“Come, let us return to Yahweh. 1 For he has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us; 1 he has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds. 1
Amos 5:18Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! 1 Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? 1 It will be darkness and not light, 1
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 →