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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lamentations 3:11
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He forced me off my way and tore me to pieces;he left me desolate.
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;
He has made my ways deviate, and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
He led me the wrong way and let me stray and left me without help.
He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces; He has made me desolate.
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces;He has made me desolate.
He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
he dragged me from the road, then tore me to shreds.
He has forced me aside and torn me to pieces, leaving me stunned.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
He led me off my path. He tore me to pieces and ruined me.
He has made my ways crooked, and cut me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
He chased me off the road, tore me to pieces, and left me.
He has forsaken my way and torn me to pieces; he has caused me desolation.
He has deflected my ways and torn me to pieces; He made me desolate.
He hath marred my wayes, and broke me in peces, he hath layed me waist altogether.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.
Hee hath turned aside my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: hee hath made me desolate.
He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether.
He pursued me after I departed, and brought me to a stand: he has utterly ruined me.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
Deleth. He distriede my pathis, and brak me; he settide me desolat.
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces; He has made me desolate.
He has dragged me off the path and torn me in pieces, leaving me helpless and devastated.
He has turned me from the path and torn me to pieces. He has destroyed me.
he led me off my way and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;
Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.
he led me off my way and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;
My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
pulled: Job 16:12, Job 16:13, Psalms 50:22, Jeremiah 5:6, Jeremiah 51:20-22, Daniel 2:40-44, Daniel 7:23, Micah 5:8, Hosea 6:1
he hath made: Lamentations 1:13, Job 16:7, Isaiah 3:26, Jeremiah 6:8, Jeremiah 9:10, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 19:8, Jeremiah 32:43, Matthew 23:38, Revelation 18:19
Reciprocal: Lamentations 3:9 - made Micah 6:13 - in
Cross-References
And he said, What hast thou done? With a voice, the shed-blood of thy brother is crying out to me from the ground,
These things, hast thou done, and I have kept silence, Thou thoughtest that I should really be like thyself, I will convict thee, yea I will set thine offences in order before thine eyes.
Inasmuch as, by works of law, shall no flesh be declared righteous before him, - through law, in fact, is discovery of sin.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He hath turned aside my ways,.... Or caused me to depart or go back from the way I was in, and so fall into the hand of the enemy that lay in wait, as before. Jarchi interprets the word of thorns, and of scattering the way with thorns, and hedging it up with them, so that there was no passing, Hosea 2:6; the sense seems to be the same with Lamentations 3:9;
and pulled me in pieces: as any creature that falls into the hands of a bear or lion. Jarchi says it signifies a stopping of the feet, so that the traveller cannot go on in his way; and in the Talmudic language it is used for the breaking off of branches of trees, which being strowed in the way, hinder passengers from travelling; and this sense agrees with what goes before:
he hath made me desolate; or brought me into a desolate condition, into ruin and destruction, as the Jews were in Babylon.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape.
Lamentations 3:11
The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.”
Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah.
Lamentations 3:12
This new simile arises out of the former one, the idea of a hunter being suggested by that of the bear and lion. When the hunter comes, it is not to save him.
Lamentations 3:14
Metaphor is dropped, and Jeremiah shows the real nature of the arrows which rankled in him so deeply.
Lamentations 3:15
“He hath” filled me to the full with bitterness, i. e. bitter sorrows Job 9:18.
Lamentations 3:16
Broken my teeth with gravel stones - His bread was so filled with grit that in eating it his teeth were broken.
Lamentations 3:17
Prosperity - literally, as in the margin, i. e. I forgot what good was, I lost the very idea of what it meant.
Lamentations 3:18
The prophet reaches the verge of despair. But by struggling against it he reaches at length firm ground.
