Lamentations 3:47
in Lamentations 3Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
KJV
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
1 note on this verseThis site's exposition
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us
on Lamentations 3:43-51
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied returns to the register of the first two chapters, the corporate voice now describing what the man described of himself. Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through names the hardest complaint of the unit, prayer itself apparently blocked, and thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people states the community's status among the nations in the plainest terms the book uses. The unit closes where much of the book closes, mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people, weeping continuing till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven, grief that keeps speaking rather than resolving into silence.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| פַּ֧חַד | pachad | terror | H6343 → | |
| וָפַ֛חַת | vafachat | and a pit | H6354 → | |
| הָ֥יָה | hayah | it has happened | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לָ֖נוּ | lanu | to us | ||
| הַשֵּׁ֥את | hashet | <the> devastation | H7612 → | |
| וְהַשָּֽׁבֶר׃ | vehashaver | and <the> brokenness | H7667 → | 45 times |
פַּ֧חַדterror
pachadH6343 →
וָפַ֛חַתand a pit
vafachatH6354 →
הָ֥יָהit has happened
hayahH1961 →3559 times
לָ֖נוּto us
lanu
הַשֵּׁ֥את<the> devastation
hashetH7612 →
וְהַשָּֽׁבֶר׃and <the> brokenness
vehashaverH7667 →45 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Lamentations 1:4The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
it leads to
- Joel 1:8–13
Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
- Jeremiah 9:11
“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Jeremiah 10:22
Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
- Jeremiah 14:2
“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 24:4–6
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
- Joel 1:8–13
Through
Isaiah 51:19These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?
it leads to
- Isaiah 47:9
These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the…
- Amos 7:2
And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
- Isaiah 47:9
Through
Luke 21:35For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth.
it leads to
- Revelation 16:15
“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
- Revelation 16:15
Where this verse is studied
No study on the site is anchored to this verse yet.
Also on Lamentations 3: 6 studies that walk through this chapter ▾
- Acrostics: From Aleph to Taw
- The Fruit of the SpiritGalatians 5:22–23 names a singular fruit (karpos, not fruits) with nine visible facets. Gifts are distributed; fruit is unified. Every believer bears the whole fruit. The grammar is the theology.
- Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Lamentations 3:22–24 · MannaFest
- Lamentations — the Study Guide
- The Weeping Prophet — the Confessions of Jeremiah
- The Yoke
About Lamentations
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations.