Lamentations 3:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

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  • 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.
  • Job 16:12-13 : 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.
  • Lam 1:13 : 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.
  • Dan 2:40-44 : 40 And the fourth kingdom will be strong as iron: because, as all things are broken and overcome by iron, so it will have the power of crushing and smashing down all the earth. 41 And as you saw the feet and toes, part of potter's work and part of iron, there will be a division in the kingdom; but there will be some of the strength of iron in it, because you saw the iron mixed with the potter's earth. 42 And as the toes of the feet were in part of iron and in part of earth, so part of the kingdom will be strong and part of it will readily be broken. 43 And as you saw the iron mixed with earth, they will give their daughters to one another as wives: but they will not be united one with another, even as iron is not mixed with earth. 44 And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.
  • Dan 7:23 : 23 This is what he said: The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom which will come on earth, different from all the kingdoms, and it will overcome all the earth, crushing it down and smashing it.
  • Job 16:7 : 7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
  • Mic 5:8 : 8 Your hand is lifted up against those who are against you, and all your haters will be cut off.
  • Matt 23:38 : 38 See, your house is made waste.
  • Rev 18:19 : 19 And they put dust on their heads, and were sad, weeping and crying, and saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, in which was increased the wealth of all who had their ships on the sea because of her great stores! for in one hour she is made waste.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:
  • Isa 3:26 : 26 And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.
  • Jer 6:8 : 8 Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.
  • Jer 9:10-11 : 10 Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone. 11 And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.
  • Jer 19:8 : 8 And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.
  • Jer 32:43 : 43 And there will be trading in fields in this land of which you say, It is a waste, without man or beast; it is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans.
  • Jer 51:20-22 : 20 You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken; 21 With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken; 22 With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;

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    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.

    4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

    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.

    8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

    9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

    10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

  • Lam 3:12-13
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    12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

    13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

  • Job 16:9-14
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    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.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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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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  • Job 19:8-11
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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.

    9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

    10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

    11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

  • Lam 3:15-17
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    15 He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

    16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Job 16:7
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    7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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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.

    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Job 30:11-14
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    11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.

    12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

    13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

    14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

  • Job 33:10-11
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    13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

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    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

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    53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

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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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    13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

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    6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

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    11 Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.

  • Ps 22:13-15
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    13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

    14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • Job 17:6
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    6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

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    17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.

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    19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.