Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
In Context
46Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
48Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Cross References
Isaiah 24:18And it hath come to pass, He who is fleeing from the noise of the fear Doth fall into the snare, And he who is coming up from the midst of the snare, Is captured by the gin, For windows on high have been opened, And shaken are foundations of the land.
Jeremiah 48:43Fear, and a snare, and a gin, [are] for thee, O inhabitant of Moab — an affirmation of Jehovah,
Lamentations 1:13From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate — all the day sick.
Luke 21:35for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,
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 →