He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
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He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
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He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
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He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.
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Passages linked to Lamentations 3:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Hosea 6:1 “Come! Let’s return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
- Job 16:12-13 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
- Lamentations 1:13 “From on high has he 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 I faint all day long.
- Job 16:7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
- Psalms 50:22 “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
- Isaiah 3:26 Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
- Jeremiah 5:6 Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.
- Jeremiah 6:8 Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”
- Jeremiah 9:10-11 I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone. “I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Jeremiah 19:8 I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
- Jeremiah 32:43 Fields will be bought in this land, about which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or animal. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’
- Jeremiah 51:20-22 “You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms. With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider. With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin.
- Daniel 2:40-44 The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, because iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, it will break in pieces and crush. Whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it will be a divided kingdom; but there will be in it of the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. As the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken. Whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they will mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they won’t cling to one another, even as iron does not mix with clay. “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.
- Daniel 7:23 “Thus he said, ‘The fourth animal will be a fourth kingdom on earth, which will be different from all the kingdoms, and will devour the whole earth, and will tread it down, and break it in pieces.
- Micah 5:8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.
- Matthew 23:38 Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
- Revelation 18:19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain In this verse also the Prophet shews how grievously…
In this verse also the Prophet shews how grievously the faithful are disturbed when they feel that God is adverse to them. But he uses the same figure as yesterday, though the word סורר, surer, is different: what he used yesterday was עוה, oue, but in the same sense.
He then says that his ways had been perverted; and for this reason, because he had been disappointed in his purpose; whatever he did was made void, because God by force prevented him. When we undertake to do anything, a way is open to us; but when there is no success, our way is said to be perverted. And this is done by God, who has all events, prosperous as well as adverse, in his own hand. As, then, God directs our ways when he blesses our counsels and our actions; so, on the other hand, he perverts them, when all things turn out unsuccessfully, when our purpose is not done and events do not answer our expectations.
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He afterwards adds, He hath torn me or broken me. The verb פשח, peshech, means properly to cut, but here to tear or scatter. It follows lastly, he hath made me a waste In this expression he includes the other two things; for he who is reduced to desolation, does not hold on his way, nor find any exit; he is also drawn here and there, as though he was torn into several parts. We hence see that the Prophet here complains of extreme evils, for there was no hope of deliverance left. He adds, —
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lam 3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and…
Lam 3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Ver. 11. He hath turned aside my ways.] As Lam 3:9.
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And pulled me in pieces.] As a bear or lion doth the silly sheep that falleth into their paws. Carnali quadam intemperie haec effusa sunt. The Vulgate hath it, Confregit me. He hath broken me in pieces; scil., Attempting to leap over his hedge; {Lam 3:7} his stone wall. {Lam 3:9} In the year 1590, Nicolas Frischlin, that famous poet, orator, and philosopher, attempting to escape out of prison, was so broken, a capite ad talos, a cute ad ossa. from the head to the heels, from the skin to the bones. {a}
{a} Alsted., Chron., 480.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The same thing is repeated in other phrases which…
The same thing is repeated in other phrases which was before said, viz. that God had pleased by his providence to frustrate all the designs and counsels of the Jews, and miserably to destroy them, as a lion or a bear (the wild beasts mentioned before) tear in pieces the beasts they prey upon.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He hath turned aside my ways,.... Or caused me…
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, Hos 2:6; the sense seems to be the same with Lam 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:
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he hath made me desolate; or brought me into a desolate condition, into ruin and destruction, as the Jews were in Babylon.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain turned aside--made me wander out of the right way,…
turned aside--made me wander out of the right way, so as to become a prey to wild beasts.
pulled in pieces-- (Hos 6:1), as a "bear" or a "lion" (Lam 3:10).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Pulled… in pieces — The figure of a…
11. Pulled… in pieces — The figure of a beast of prey still continues. He turns him from the path and tears him “in pieces.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. He hath driven me from the path, and…
11. He hath driven me from the path, and then sprung upon me and devoured me.
desolate] appalled, stupified. Cp. Lam_4:5; akin to the word rendered “astonishment” in Jer_5:30 (mg.), Jer_18:16.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) He hath turned aside.—The terror caused by the…
(11) He hath turned aside.—The terror caused by the lion turns the traveller from his path, and there is no other; and then comes the attack by which he is torn in pieces.
He hath made me desolate.—Better, made me astonied, as in Ezr_9:3. The verb (which occurs forty times in Jeremiah’s prophecies and three times in Lam.), paints the stupefaction of terror.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Hath turned aside my ways; i.e. hath caused me…
Hath turned aside my ways; i.e. hath caused me to go astray. Comp. Psa_146:9, "The way of the ungodly he maketh crooked," i.e. he leadeth them to destruction. Made me desolate; or, made me stunned . ("astonied," Ezr_9:3 in our Bible) So Lam_1:13, Lam_1:16.
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