Lamentations 3:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

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  • Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us, and he will bind us up.
  • Job 16:12-13 : 12 I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target. 13 His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.
  • Lam 1:13 : 13 From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.
  • Dan 2:40-44 : 40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, for as much as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and as iron that crushes all these, it shall break in pieces and crush. 41 And as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it some of the strength of the iron, for as much as you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 And as you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not hold together, even as iron does not mix with clay. 44 And in the days of these kings, the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
  • Dan 7:23 : 23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
  • Job 16:7 : 7 But now he has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company.
  • Mic 5:8 : 8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he goes through, both treads down and tears in pieces, and none can deliver.
  • Matt 23:38 : 38 See, your house is left to you desolate.
  • Rev 18:19 : 19 And they threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea were made rich by her wealth! for in one hour she is made desolate.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
  • Isa 3:26 : 26 And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she being desolate shall sit on the ground.
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.
  • Jer 6:8 : 8 Be instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.
  • Jer 9:10-11 : 10 For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone. 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 19:8 : 8 And I will make this city desolate, and an object of scorn; everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
  • Jer 32:43 : 43 And fields shall be bought in this land, of which you say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
  • Jer 51:20-22 : 20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war; for with you I will break in pieces the nations, and with you I will destroy kingdoms; 21 And with you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider; 22 With you also I will break in pieces man and woman; with you I will break in pieces old and young; and with you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden.

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    4 My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

    5 He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

    6 He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

    7 He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

    8 Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

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    10 He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.

  • Lam 3:12-13
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    12 He has bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow.

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    10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

    11 God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

    12 I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target.

    13 His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

    14 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13 From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

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    16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes.

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    7 But now he has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company.

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    4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

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

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    10 Behold, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;

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