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The Prophet’s Afflictions

Lamentations 3:11

In 11 translations

BSB
He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
KJV
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
WEB
He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
ASV
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
LSV
My ways He is turning aside, and He pulls me in pieces, || He has made me a desolation.
YLT
My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.
DBY
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
DRC
Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.
GNV
He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
JPS
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.
LXXE
He pursued me after I departed, and brought me to a stand: he has utterly ruined me.

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Original-language editions

WLC
דְּרָכַ֥י סוֹרֵ֛ר וַֽיְפַשְּׁחֵ֖נִי שָׂמַ֥נִי שֹׁמֵֽם׃
LXX-Br
κατεδίωξεν ἀφεστηκότα, καὶ κατέπαυσέ με, ἔθετό με ἠφανισμένην.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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

Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.
  • Job 16:12–13I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target; His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
  • Lamentations 1:13He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
  • Revelation 18:19Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”
  • Jeremiah 6:8Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”
  • Jeremiah 9:10–11I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and…
  • Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
  • Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
  • Daniel 7:23This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down, and crush it.
  • Job 16:7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
  • Jeremiah 5:6Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious…
  • Jeremiah 51:20–22“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin. With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver. With you I shatter man and…
  • Micah 5:8Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through,…
  • Matthew 23:38Look, your house is left to you desolate.
  • Daniel 2:40–44Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; for iron shatters and crushes all things, and like iron that crushes all things, it will shatter and crush all the others. And just as you saw that the feet…
  • Jeremiah 19:8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

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