Lamentations 3:47
Verse 47 of 66. The 3rd of 5 chapters in Lamentations, in The Major Prophets.
43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
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,
50Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
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Lamentations 3:47 in the World English Bible
Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”Read Lamentations 3:47 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:47
They complain of the lamentable destruction that their enemies made of them (v. 47): Fear and a snare have come upon us; the enemies have not only terrified us with those alarms, but prevailed against us by their stratagems, and surprised us with the ambushes they laid for us; and then follows nothing but desolation and destruction, the destruction of the daughter of my people (v. 48), of all the daughters of my city, v. 51.
Read Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:42–54: Complaining to God. (b. c. 588.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.