Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Lamentations 3:47 in other translations
| BSB | Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction. |
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| WEB | Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.” |
| ASV | Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction. |
| YLT | Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction. |
| DARBY | Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin. |
| BBE | Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction. |
| Webster | Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. |
What does Lamentations 3:47 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:46-48
46-48. Pe is put before Ain (La 3:43, 46), as in La 2:16, 17; 4:16, 17. (La 2:16.)
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:42-54
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.
Lamentations 3:47 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:47
- Isaiah 24:17-18
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
- Isaiah 51:19
These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
- Jeremiah 48:43-44
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord. He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.
- Lamentations 1:4
The 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 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.
- Lamentations 2:1-9
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. …
- Luke 21:35
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
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Context
- Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
- Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
- Lamentations 3:48
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:47 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Temor y lazo fué para nosotros, asolamiento y quebrantamiento. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | La frayeur et la fosse sont venues sur nous, la destruction et la ruine. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Grauen und Grube sind über uns gekommen, Verwüstung und Zertrümmerung. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Formido et laqueus facta est nobis vaticinatio, et contritio. |