Lamentations 3:10
He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 10:16 : 16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:
- Ps 10:9 : 9 He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
- Ps 17:12 : 12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.
- Isa 38:13 : 13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
- Hos 5:14 : 14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.
- Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.
- Hos 13:7-8 : 7 So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road; 8 I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.
- Amos 5:18-20 : 18 Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light. 19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake. 20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Lam 3:11-122 verses85%
11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
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12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.
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9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
- Ps 10:8-103 verses81%
8 He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
9 He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.
- Ps 22:12-132 verses78%
12 A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.
13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.
- Hos 13:7-82 verses78%
7 So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;
8 I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.
- Lam 3:5-73 verses77%
5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
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2 So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
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16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:
- Job 16:9-146 verses75%
9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
- Job 33:10-112 verses75%
10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;
11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.
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19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.
- Lam 3:2-32 verses74%
2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
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10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.
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13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
- Nah 2:11-122 verses74%
11 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.
12 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
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4 My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
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3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.
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38 The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.
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6 And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
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10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
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5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)
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8 My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.
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15 Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.
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3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
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16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
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10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,
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13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.
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8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
- 72%
6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.
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11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.
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9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.
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6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.
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22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.