Lamentations 3:47 · KJV
“Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.”
— Lamentations 3:47
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3 — Context
Thou 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,
Cross References
Isaiah 24:17-18
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, {are} upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah 51:19
These two {things} are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? {are...: Heb. happened} {destruction: Heb. breaking}
Jeremiah 48:43-44
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, {shall be} upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
Lamentations 2:1-9
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, {and} cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Luke 21:35
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Lamentations 1:13
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate {and} faint all the day.
Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she {is} in bitterness.