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Bishop's Bible

Lamentations 3:47

Feare and pit is come vpon vs, yea deceipt and destruction.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lamentations;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Pitfall;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;   Pit;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Deep;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
We have experienced panic and pitfall,devastation and destruction.”
Hebrew Names Version
Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.
King James Version
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
English Standard Version
panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;
New American Standard Bible
Panic and pitfall have come upon us, Devastation and destruction;
New Century Version
We have been frightened and fearful, ruined and destroyed."
Amplified Bible
Panic and pitfall (traps, danger) have come on us, Devastation and destruction.
World English Bible
Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Feare, and a snare is come vpon vs with desolation and destruction.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction;
Legacy Standard Bible
Panic and pitfall have befallen us,Devastation and destruction;
Berean Standard Bible
Panic and pitfall have come upon us-devastation and destruction.
Contemporary English Version
We are terrified and trapped, caught and crushed."
Complete Jewish Bible
Panic and pitfall have come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Darby Translation
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.
Easy-to-Read Version
We have been frightened. We have fallen into a pit. We have been badly hurt. We have been broken."
George Lamsa Translation
Till the LORD look down and behold from heaven.
Good News Translation
We have been through disaster and ruin; we live in danger and fear.
Lexham English Bible
Fear and a pit have come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Literal Translation
Dread and a pit is ours, devastation and ruin.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Feare and snare is come vpon vs, yee despite and destruccion.
American Standard Version
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
Bible in Basic English
Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction.
King James Version (1611)
Feare and a snare is come vpon vs, desolation and destruction.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Fear and wrath are come upon us, suspense and destruction.
English Revised Version
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ayn. Inward drede and snare is maad to vs, profesie and defoulyng.
Update Bible Version
Fear and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.
Webster's Bible Translation
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
New English Translation
Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
New King James Version
Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation and destruction.
New Living Translation
We are filled with fear, for we are trapped, devastated, and ruined."
New Life Bible
Fear and a trap have come upon us. We are laid waste and destroyed.
New Revised Standard
panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Terror and a pit, have befallen us, tumult and grievous injury;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
Revised Standard Version
panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;
Young's Literal Translation
Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.

Contextual Overview

42 We haue ben dissemblers and haue offended, wylt thou therefore not be intreated? 43 Thou hast couered vs in thy wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slayne vs without any fauour. 44 Thou hast hid thy selfe in a cloude, that our prayer should not go through. 45 Thou hast made vs outcastes, and to be despised among the people. 46 All our enemies gape vpon vs. 47 Feare and pit is come vpon vs, yea deceipt and destruction. 48 Whole riuers of water gushe out of mine eyes for the hurt of my people: 49 Myne eyes runne and cannot ceasse, for there is no rest: 50 O Lorde, when wylt thou looke downe from heauen and consider? 51 Mine eyes breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my citie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Fear: Isaiah 24:17, Isaiah 24:18, Isaiah 51:19, Jeremiah 48:43, Jeremiah 48:44, Luke 21:35

desolation: Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 1:13, Lamentations 2:1-9

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 4:20 - upon destruction Jeremiah 9:11 - desolate Ezekiel 12:13 - My net

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Fear and a snare is come upon us,.... Or, "fear and a pit" m; the fear of failing into the pit of ruin and destruction, on the brink of which they saw themselves; or fear seized us, and caused us to flee; and a snare or pit was prepared for us to fall into; so that there was no escaping hence:

desolation and destruction; desolation or devastation of their land; and destruction of their city and temple; and of multitudes of them by the sword, famine, and pestilence; and the rest carried into captivity, excepting a few left desolate in the land.

m פחד ופחת "pavor et fovea", Calvin, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Desolation - Or, devastation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 47. Fear and a snareJeremiah 48:13.


 
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