New King James Version
Lamentations 3:10
10He has been to me a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in ambush.
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 Living Translation (NLT)He has hidden like a bear or a lion, waiting to attack me.
Context of Lamentations 3:10
8Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer. 9He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. He has been to me a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in ambush. 11He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces; He has made me desolate. 12He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:10 word by word
דֹּ֣ב אֹרֵ֥ב הוּא֙ לִ֔י אֲרִ֖י בְּמִסְתָּרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 3:10
- Job 10:16If my head is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me.
- Isaiah 38:13I have considered until morning— Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me.
- 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 them and go away; I will take them away, and no one shall rescue.
- Hosea 6:1Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
- Hosea 13:7“So I will be to them like a lion; Like a leopard by the road I will lurk;
- Amos 5:18Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! For what good is the day of the Lord to you? It will be darkness, and not light.
- Psalms 10:9He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; He lies in wait to catch the poor; He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
- Psalms 17:12As a lion is eager to tear his prey, And like a young lion lurking in secret places.
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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