Lamentations 3:47

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Isa 24:17-18 : 17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes 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 have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?
  • Jer 48:43-44 : 43 Fear, the pit, and the snare shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD. 44 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who gets out of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says the LORD.
  • Lam 1:4 : 4 The ways of Zion 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 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.
  • Lam 2:1-9 : 1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger, and cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, and not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger! 2 The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground: He has defiled the kingdom and its princes. 3 He has cut off in His fierce anger all the strength of Israel: He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy, and He burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around. 4 He has bent His bow like an enemy: He stood with His right hand as an adversary, and killed 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 like an enemy: He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces: He has destroyed His strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. 6 And He has violently taken away His tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: He has destroyed His places of the assembly: the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest. 7 The Lord has cast off His altar, He has abhorred His sanctuary, He has 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 has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: He has stretched out a line, He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying: therefore He made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has 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 those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 24:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

    17Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.

    18And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes 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
    79%

    46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

  • Lam 3:48
    78%

    48My eye pours out rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Job 22:10
    77%

    10Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

  • Prov 1:27
    76%

    27When your fear comes like desolation, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.

  • Jer 48:43-44
    2 verses
    76%

    43Fear, the pit, and the snare shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD.

    44He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit, and he who gets out of the pit shall be taken in the snare; for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says the LORD.

  • Job 3:25
    75%

    25For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.

  • Jer 6:24-26
    3 verses
    74%

    24We have heard the report, our hands grow weak; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in labor.

    25Do not go 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, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make lamentation, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

  • Ps 55:4-5
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    74%

    4My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

    5Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

  • Jer 4:20
    74%

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

  • Lam 4:18
    74%

    18They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.

  • Ps 73:19
    74%

    19How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • Job 30:14
    73%

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

  • Jer 9:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, 'How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.'

  • Rom 3:16
    73%

    16'Destruction and misery are in their ways:'

  • Lam 2:16
    73%

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

  • Jer 50:22
    72%

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

  • Ps 35:8
    72%

    8Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, and let his net that he has hidden catch himself; into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Joel 1:15
    72%

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

  • Job 18:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Jer 8:15
    72%

    15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!

  • Ps 17:11
    72%

    11They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bending down to the earth.

  • Ezek 7:25
    72%

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

  • Lam 3:11
    72%

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Jer 48:3
    72%

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

  • Prov 1:12
    71%

    12Let us swallow them alive like the grave, and whole, like those who go down into the pit;

  • 2 Chr 29:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8Therefore, the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as you see with your eyes.

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

  • Prov 3:25
    71%

    25Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes.

  • Lam 5:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

    17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

  • Job 28:22
    71%

    22Destruction and death say, 'We have heard a report of it with our ears.'

  • Jer 4:8
    71%

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

  • Jer 25:37
    71%

    37And the peaceful habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Isa 24:12
    71%

    12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

  • Jer 18:22
    71%

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

  • Jer 9:21
    71%

    21For death has climbed up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.

  • Luke 21:35
    70%

    35For as a snare shall it come on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.

  • Lam 2:5
    70%

    5The Lord was like an enemy: He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces: He has destroyed His strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

  • Nah 2:10
    70%

    10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather paleness.

  • Jer 3:24
    70%

    24For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • Isa 13:6
    70%

    6Howl; for the day of the LORD is near; it will come as a destruction from the Almighty.

  • Jer 5:30
    70%

    30A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;