Lamentations 3:10
A bear lying in wait, he is to me, a lion, in secret places;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 hath walled in my ways with hewn stone, my paths, hath he caused to wind back.
11My ways, hath he turned aside, and hath torn me in pieces, hath made me desolate;
Cross References
Psalms 10:9He lieth in wait in a hiding-place, like a lion in his covert, He lieth in wait to catch the humbled, He catcheth the humbled, by drawing him into his net:
Isaiah 38:13I cried out, until morning, like a lion, Thus, will he break all my bones! From day until night, Thou wilt finish me!
Hosea 6:1Come, and let us return unto Yahweh! for, he, hath torn, that he might heal us,—smitten, that he might bind us up.
Amos 5:18Alas for them who are longing for the day of Yahweh,—What good to you, is the day of Yahweh? it, being darkness and not light:
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 →