Christian Standard Bible
Lamentations 3:10
10He is a bear waiting in ambush, a lion in hiding.
Lamentations 3:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
- New International Version (NIV)Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,
- English Standard Version (ESV)He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding;
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has been to me a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in ambush.
Context of Lamentations 3:10
8Even when I cry out and plead for help, he blocks out my prayer. 9He has walled in my ways with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked. He is a bear waiting in ambush, a lion in hiding. 11He forced me off my way and tore me to pieces; he left me desolate. 12He strung his bow and set me as the target for his arrow.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:10 word by word
דֹּ֣ב אֹרֵ֥ב הוּא֙ לִ֔י אֲרִ֖י בְּמִסְתָּרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:10
- Job 10:16If I am proud, you hunt me like a lion and again display your miraculous power against me.
- Isaiah 38:13I thought until the morning: He will break all my bones like a lion. By nightfall you make an end of me.
- Hosea 5:14For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. Yes, I will tear them to pieces and depart. I will carry them off, and no one can rescue them.
- Hosea 6:1Come, let’s return to the Lord. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds.
- Hosea 13:7So I will be like a lion to them; I will lurk like a leopard on the path.
- Amos 5:18Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! What will the day of the Lord be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
- Psalms 10:9he lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket. He lurks in order to seize a victim; he seizes a victim and drags him in his net.
- Psalms 17:12They are like a lion eager to tear, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:10
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-18Verses 10-18 Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape. Lamentations 3:11 The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.” Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah. Lamentations 3:12 This new…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-24The author speaks of the suffering of Judah and Jerusalem as his own.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1310-13. (Job 10:16; Ho 13:7, 8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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