Lamentations 3:10
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3:10 in other translations
| BSB | He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | A bear lying in wait He is to me, A lion in secret hiding-places. |
| DARBY | He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places. |
| BBE | He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places. |
| Webster | He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. |
What does Lamentations 3:10 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:10-15
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:1-20
The faithful lament their calamities, and hope in God's mercies. Verses 1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the…
Lamentations 3:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:10
- Hosea 6:1
Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
- Psalms 10:9
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
- Amos 5:18-20
Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Job 10:16
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
- Hosea 5:14
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
- Hosea 13:7-8
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
- Isaiah 38:13
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Psalms 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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Context
- Lamentations 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
- Lamentations 3:10
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
- Lamentations 3:11
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Como oso que acecha fué para mí, como león en escondrijos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il a été pour moi un ours aux embûches, un lion dans les lieux cachés. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ein lauernder Bär ist er mir, ein Löwe im Versteck. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ursus insidians factus est mihi, leo in absconditis. |