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Lamentations 3:47 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 3 · verse 47
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.Lamentations 3:47 · King James Version
Lamentations 3:47 in context
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- desolationshêʼthdevastationH7612 →
- snarepachatha pit, especially forcatching animalsH6354 →
- Fearpachada alarmH6343 →
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It is easier to chide ourselves for complaining than to chide ourselves out of it. The prophet had owned that a living man should not complain, as if he checked himself for his complaints in the former part of the chapter; and yet here the clouds return after the rain and the wound bleeds afresh;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 42-54