Lamentations 3:11
My ways, hath he turned aside, and hath torn me in pieces, hath made me desolate;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
In Context
10A bear lying in wait, he is to me, a lion, in secret places;
12He hath trodden his bow, and set me up, as a mark for the arrow.
Cross References
Job 16:12At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark:
Isaiah 3:26And her gates shall mourn and lament,—And forsaken, on the ground, shall she sit.
Jeremiah 6:8Receive thou correction O Jerusalem, Lest my soul be torn from thee,—Lest I make thee A desolation, A land not habitable.
Jeremiah 19:8And I will give their dead bodies for food, to the bird of the heavens and to the beast of the earth; And I will make this city a desolation and a hissing,—every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and hiss over all her wounds;
Jeremiah 51:20A war-club, art thou for me, Weapons of war; Therefore will I Beat down with thee—nations, and Destroy with thee—kingdoms;
Daniel 2:40And, the fourth kingdom, shall be hard as iron,—in like manner as iron breaketh in pieces and crusheth all things,—even as iron which bringeth to ruins all these, shall it break in pieces and bring to ruins.
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 →