Lamentations 3:47

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

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  • Isa 24:17-18 : 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 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.
  • Isa 51:19 : 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?
  • Jer 48:43-44 : 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD. 44 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.
  • Lam 1:4 : 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.
  • Lam 1:13 : 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.
  • Lam 2:1-9 : 1 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! 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. 6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. 7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. 8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
  • Luke 21:35 : 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

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  • Isa 24:17-18
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    17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

    18And 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.

  • Lam 3:46
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    46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

  • Lam 3:48
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    48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Job 22:10
    77%

    10Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

  • Prov 1:27
    76%

    27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

  • Jer 48:43-44
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    43Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.

    44He 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.

  • Job 3:25
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    25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

  • Jer 6:24-26
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    24We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

    25Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

    26O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

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    4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

    5Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

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    20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

  • Lam 4:18
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    18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • Job 30:14
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    14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

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    18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

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    16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

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    16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

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    22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

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    8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

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    15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

  • Job 18:10-11
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    10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

    11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

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    11They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

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    25Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

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    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

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    3A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

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    12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

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    8Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

    9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

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    25Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

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    16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

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    8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

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    21For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

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    6Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

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