English Standard Version
Lamentations 3:10
10He is a bear lying in wait for me, 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,
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has been to me a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in ambush.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He has hidden like a bear or a lion, waiting to attack me.
Context of Lamentations 3:10
8though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; 9he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding; 11he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate; 12he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
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דֹּ֣ב אֹרֵ֥ב הוּא֙ לִ֔י אֲרִ֖י בְּמִסְתָּרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:10
- Job 10:16And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.
- Isaiah 38:13I calmed myself until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.
- Hosea 5:14For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
- Hosea 6:1"Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
- Hosea 13:7So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.
- Amos 5:18Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light,
- Psalms 10:9he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.
- Psalms 17:12He is like a lion eager to tear, as 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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