Revised Webster's Bible
Lamentations 3:47
47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Lamentations 3:47 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
- New International Version (NIV)We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;
- New King James Version (NKJV)Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation and destruction.
Context of Lamentations 3:47
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49My eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:47 word by word
פַּ֧חַד וָפַ֛חַת הָ֥יָה לָ֖נוּ הַשֵּׁ֥את וְהַשָּֽׁבֶר׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:47
- Isaiah 24:17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
- Isaiah 51:19These two things have come to thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
- Jeremiah 48:43Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
- Luke 21:35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
- Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
- Lamentations 2:1How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:47
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 47Fear and a snare - See on Jeremiah 48:13; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 47Desolation - Or, devastation.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 42-54Verses 42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-66In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:1–20, 48–54). In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:21–25). He explains how God’s people should respond (Lamentations 3:26–47). Finally, he calls out to the Lord in prayer (Lamentations 3:55–66).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 46-4846-48. Pe is put before Ain (La 3:43, 46), as in La 2:16, 17; 4:16, 17. (La 2:16.)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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