Lamentations 3:47
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.›
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Isa 24:17-182 verses80%
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.
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46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
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48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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10 Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
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27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Jer 48:43-442 verses76%
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.
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25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
- Jer 6:24-263 verses74%
24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pain, as of a woman in travail.
25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.
26 O 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.
- Ps 55:4-52 verses74%
4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
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20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment.
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18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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19 How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
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14 They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
- Jer 9:18-192 verses73%
18 And 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.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out.
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16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:
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16 All 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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22 A sound of battle [is] in the land, and of great destruction.
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8 Let 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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15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD [is] at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
- Job 18:10-112 verses72%
10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11 ¶ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
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15 We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!
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11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
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25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and [there shall be] none.
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11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
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3 A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
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12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
- 2 Chr 29:8-92 verses71%
8 Wherefore 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.
9 For, 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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25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
- Lam 5:16-172 verses71%
16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17 ¶ For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
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22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
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8 For 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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37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
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12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
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22 Let 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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21 For 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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35 ‹For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.›
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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.
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10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
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24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
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6 ¶ Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
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30 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;