Lamentations 3:10 · KJV
“He {was} unto me {as} a bear lying in wait, {and as} a lion in secret places.”
— Lamentations 3:10
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 3 — Context
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10He {was} unto me {as} a bear lying in wait, {and as} a lion in secret places.
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Cross References
Amos 5:18-20
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end {is} it for you? the day of the LORD {is} darkness, and not light.
Hosea 13:7-8
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe {them}:
Isaiah 38:13
I reckoned till morning, {that}, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day {even} to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Job 10:16
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Psalms 10:9
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. {secretly: Heb. in the secret places}
Hosea 5:14
For I {will be} unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, {even} I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue {him}.
Hosea 6:1
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Psalms 17:12
Like as a lion {that} is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. {Like...: Heb. The likeness of him (that is, of every one of them) is as a lion that desireth to ravin} {lurking: Heb. sitting}