The Prophet’s Afflictions

Lamentations 3:10

In 11 translations

BSB: He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
KJV: He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
WEB: He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
ASV: He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
LSV: A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, || A lion in secret hiding places.
YLT: A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.
DBY: He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.
DRC: Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
GNV: He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.
JPS: He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
LXXE: he has troubled me, as a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me as a lion in secret places.

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Written (Ketiv): אַרְיֵה (“a lion”). Read aloud (Qere): אֲרִ֖י (“a lion”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)

Leningrad Codex reads אֲרִ֖יה; read aloud (Qere) reads אֲרִ֖י (“a lion”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC: דֹּ֣ב אֹרֵ֥ב הוּא֙ לִ֔י אריה בְּמִסְתָּרִֽים׃Read aloud as (qere): אֲרִ֖י
LXX-Br: ἐτάραξεν ἄρκος ἐνεδρεύουσα, αὐτός μοι λέων ἐν κρυφαίοις,

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Bear Poetry Lion Alphabet Bear, The Despondency Lamentations, Book of Lion, The Murmuring Poetry, Hebrew

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

Amos 5:18–20Woe 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. It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house…
Hosea 13:7–8So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path. Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild…
Hosea 5:14For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.
Psalms 10:9He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
Job 10:16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
Isaiah 38:13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
Psalms 17:12like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).