Lamentations 3:11
he turned aside my paths, he has made me desolate. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 like a bear waiting to ambush me, a lion in hiding; 1
12He bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow. 1
Cross References
Job 16:12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. 1 Indeed, he has taken me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; 1 he has also set me up as his target. 1
Isaiah 3:26Jerusalem's gates will lament and mourn; and she will be alone and sit upon the ground.
Jeremiah 6:8Accept discipline, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you 1 and make you into a ruin, an uninhabited land.'” 1
Jeremiah 19:8Then I will make this city a ruin and the object of hissing, for everyone passing by it will shudder and hiss regarding all of its plagues.
Jeremiah 51:20You are my war hammer, my weapon for battle. 1 With you I will smash nations and destroy kingdoms. 1
Daniel 2:40There will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks other things into pieces and shatters everything. It will shatter all these things and crush them.
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 →