Lamentations 3:47
Terror and a pit, have befallen us, tumult and grievous injury;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
In Context
46With their mouth, opened wide over us, [stand] all our foes.
48With streams of water, mine eye runneth down, over the grievous injury of the daughter of my people.
Cross References
Isaiah 24:18So shall it be—He that fleeth from the sound of the terror! shall fall into the pit, And, he that getteth up out of the midst of the pit, shall be captured in the snare,—For, the windows on high, have opened, And shaken are the foundations of earth.
Jeremiah 48:43Terror and pit and snare are upon thee O inhabitant of Moab Declareth Yahweh:
Lamentations 1:13From on high, sent he fire, among my bones, and laid them prostrate,—He spread out a net for my feet, he made me turn back, he made me desolate, all the day, faint.
Luke 21:35as a snare,—For it will come in by surprise, upon all them that are dwelling on the face of all the earth.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →