Lamentations 3:3
New International Version
indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.

New Living Translation
He has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.

English Standard Version
surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.

Berean Standard Bible
Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.

King James Bible
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

New King James Version
Surely He has turned His hand against me Time and time again throughout the day.

New American Standard Bible
Indeed, He has turned His hand against me Repeatedly all the day.

NASB 1995
Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.

NASB 1977
Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.

Legacy Standard Bible
Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.

Amplified Bible
Surely He has turned His hand against me Repeatedly all the day.

Christian Standard Bible
Yes, he repeatedly turns his hand against me all day long.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yes, He repeatedly turns His hand against me all day long.

American Standard Version
Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
However he shall turn and he shall return his hand against me all day

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day.

Contemporary English Version
I am the only one he punishes over and over again, without ever stopping.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

English Revised Version
Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He beat me again and again all day long.

Good News Translation
And beat me again and again with merciless blows.

International Standard Version
He truly turned his hand against me, again and again, all day long.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Surely against me He turneth His hand again and again all the day.

Literal Standard Version
Surely against me He turns back, | He turns His hand all the day.

Majority Standard Bible
Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.

New American Bible
Against me alone he turns his hand— again and again all day long.

NET Bible
He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

New Revised Standard Version
against me alone he turns his hand, again and again, all day long.

New Heart English Bible
Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.

Webster's Bible Translation
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

World English Bible
Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.

Young's Literal Translation
Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.

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Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. 3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. 4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.…

Cross References
Psalm 38:2
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

Isaiah 5:25
Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.


Treasury of Scripture

Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.

Lamentations 2:4-7
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire…

Deuteronomy 29:20
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

Job 31:21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

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22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37. He acknowledges God's justice
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(3) Against me is he turned.--Better, against me He turneth His hand again and again, the first verb being one of frequentative action, and giving that significance to the second.

Verse 3. - Is he turned; he turneth; rather, he turneth again and again.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Indeed,
אַ֣ךְ (’aḵ)
Adverb
Strong's 389: A particle of affirmation, surely

He keeps turning
יָשֻׁ֛ב (yā·šuḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

His hand
יָד֖וֹ (yā·ḏōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

[against me] all day long.
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every


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