Lamentations 3:47

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

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  • Isa 24:17-18 : 17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth. 18 And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.
  • Isa 51:19 : 19 These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?
  • Jer 48:43-44 : 43 Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord. 44 He who goes in flight from the fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for I will make this come on Moab, even the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
  • Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
  • 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.
  • Lam 2:1-9 : 1 How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath. 2 The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers. 3 In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about. 4 His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire. 5 The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah. 6 And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest. 7 The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting. 8 It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together. 9 Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.
  • Luke 21:35 : 35 For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.

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  • Isa 24:17-18
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    17Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

    18And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

  • Lam 3:46
    79%

    46The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

  • Lam 3:48
    78%

    48Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Job 22:10
    77%

    10For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

  • Prov 1:27
    76%

    27When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

  • Jer 48:43-44
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    76%

    43Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord.

    44He who goes in flight from the fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for I will make this come on Moab, even the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

  • Job 3:25
    75%

    25For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

  • Jer 6:24-26
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    74%

    24The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

    25Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

    26O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.

  • Ps 55:4-5
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    4My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

    5Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

  • Jer 4:20
    74%

    20News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.

  • Lam 4:18
    74%

    18They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.

  • Ps 73:19
    74%

    19How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • Job 30:14
    73%

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

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    73%

    18Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

    19For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

  • Rom 3:16
    73%

    16Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

  • Lam 2:16
    73%

    16All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

  • Jer 50:22
    72%

    22There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.

  • Ps 35:8
    72%

    8Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • Joel 1:15
    72%

    15Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.

  • Job 18:10-11
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    72%

    10The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

    11He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

  • Jer 8:15
    72%

    15We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • Ezek 7:25
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    25Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Jer 48:3
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    3There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;

  • Prov 1:12
    71%

    12Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • 2 Chr 29:8-9
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    8And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

    9For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.

  • Prov 3:25
    71%

    25Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:

  • Lam 5:16-17
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    71%

    16The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

    17Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

  • Job 28:22
    71%

    22Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

    8For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

  • Jer 25:37
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    37And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • Isa 24:12
    71%

    12In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

  • Jer 18:22
    71%

    22Let 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.

  • Jer 9:21
    71%

    21For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.

  • Luke 21:35
    70%

    35For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.

  • Lam 2:5
    70%

    5The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

  • Nah 2:10
    70%

    10Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.

  • Jer 3:24
    70%

    24But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • Isa 13:6
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    6Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

  • Jer 5:30
    70%

    30A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;