Lamentations 3:47
Good News Translation
We have been through disaster and ruin; we live in danger and fear.

New Revised Standard Version
panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.

Contemporary English Version
We are terrified and trapped, caught and crushed."

New American Bible
Panic and the pit have been our lot, desolation and destruction;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.

fear

Isaiah 24:17,18 Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the earth. . . .

Isaiah 51:19 There are two things that have happened to thee: who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword, who shall comfort thee?

Jeremiah 48:43,44 Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord. . . .

Luke 21:35 For as a snare shall it come upon all that sit upon the face of the whole earth.

desolation

Lamentations 1:4,13 Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness. . . .

Lamentations 2:1-9 Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. . . .

Context
God's Justice
46Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.48Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.…
Cross References
Isaiah 24:17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the earth.

Isaiah 24:18
And it shall come to pass, that he that shall flee from the noise of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid himself out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the flood-gates from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.

Jeremiah 48:43
Fear, and the pit, and the snare come upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:44
He that shall flee from the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall get up out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon Moab the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

Lamentations 3:46
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