Lamentations 3:11
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:11 in other translations
| BSB | He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation. |
| DARBY | He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. |
| BBE | By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste. |
| Webster | He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. |
What does Lamentations 3:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:10-15
10-13. (Job 10:16; Ho 13:7, 8).
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 3:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:11
- 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.
- Job 16:12-13
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
- Lamentations 1:13
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
- Daniel 7:23
Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
- Jeremiah 19:8
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
- Jeremiah 9:10-11
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 5:6
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
- Jeremiah 51:20-22
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
- Jeremiah 6:8
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
- Micah 5:8
And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
- Matthew 23:38
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
- Daniel 2:40-44
And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. …
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Context
- 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 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Torció mis caminos, y depedazóme; tornóme asolado. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il a fait dévier mes chemins et m’a déchiré; il m’a rendu désolé. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er hat mir die Wege entzogen und hat mich zerfleischt, mich verwüstet. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Semitas meas subvertit, et confregit me; posuit me desolatam. |