Lamentations 3:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.

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  • Hos 6:1 : 1 `Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.
  • Job 16:12-13 : 12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark. 13 Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.
  • Lam 1:13 : 13 From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.
  • Dan 2:40-44 : 40 And the fourth kingdom is strong as iron, because that iron is breaking small, and making feeble, all `things', even as iron that is breaking all these, it beateth small and breaketh. 41 As to that which thou hast seen: the feet and toes, part of them potter's clay, and part of them iron, the kingdom is divided: and some of the standing of the iron `is' to be in it, because that thou hast seen the iron mixed with miry clay. 42 As to the toes of the feet, part of them iron, and part of them clay: some part of the kingdom is strong, and some part of it is brittle. 43 Because thou hast seen iron mixed with miry clay, they are mixing themselves with the seed of men: and they are not adhering one with another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. 44 `And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed -- to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.
  • Dan 7:23 : 23 `Thus he said: The fourth beast is the fourth kingdom in the earth, that is diverse from all kingdoms, and it consumeth all the earth, and treadeth it down, and breaketh it small.
  • Job 16:7 : 7 Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,
  • Mic 5:8 : 8 Yea, the remnant of Jacob hath been among nations, In the midst of many peoples, As a lion among beasts of a forest, As a young lion among ranks of a flock, Which if it hath passed through, Hath both trodden down and hath torn, And there is no deliverer.
  • Matt 23:38 : 38 Lo, left desolate to you is your house;
  • Rev 18:19 : 19 and they did cast dust upon their heads, and were crying out, weeping and sorrowing, saying, Wo, wo, the great city! in which were made rich all having ships in the sea, out of her costliness -- for in one hour was she made waste.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
  • Isa 3:26 : 26 And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!
  • Jer 5:6 : 6 Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.
  • Jer 6:8 : 8 Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.
  • Jer 9:10-11 : 10 For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, And for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, For they have been burnt up without any passing over, Nor have they heard the voice of cattle, From the fowl of the heavens unto the beast they have fled, they have gone. 11 And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.
  • Jer 19:8 : 8 and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and doth hiss for all its plagues.
  • Jer 32:43 : 43 and bought hath been the field in this land of which ye are saying, A desolation it `is', without man and beast, it hath been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
  • Jer 51:20-22 : 20 An axe `art' thou to me -- weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces by thee nations, And I have destroyed by thee kingdoms, 21 And I have broken in pieces by thee horse and its rider, And I have broken in pieces by thee chariot and its charioteer, 22 And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman, And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young, And I have broken in pieces by thee young man and virgin,

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    2 Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

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    4 He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.

    5 He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

    6 In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

    7 He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

    8 Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

    9 He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

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    12 He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

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    10 They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

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    12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

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    13 From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.

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    15 He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me `with' wormwood.

    16 And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

    17 And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.

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    3 For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

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    11 Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.

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    14 As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.

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    13 They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.

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    19 And I `am' as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.