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Lamentations 3:11

He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.

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ASV

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

KJV

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
דְּרָכַ֥יde.ra.Khaiways myH1870 →
סוֹרֵ֛רso.Rerhe has caused to deviateH5493 →
וַֽיְפַשְּׁחֵ֖נִיvay.fa.she.Che.niand he has torn in pieces meH6582 →
שָׂמַ֥נִיsa.Ma.nihe has made meH7760 →
שֹׁמֵֽם׃sho.MemdesolateH8076 →

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Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.Job 16:12–13I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;Lamentations 1:13He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.Jeremiah 5:6Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.Daniel 2:40–44Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; for iron shatters and crushes all things, and like iron that crushes all things, it will shatter and crush all the others.Jeremiah 6:8Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”Revelation 18:19Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”Matthew 23:38Look, your house is left to you desolate.Jeremiah 19:8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.Daniel 7:23This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down, and crush it.Jeremiah 32:43And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’Micah 5:8Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.Jeremiah 9:10–11I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.Jeremiah 51:20–22“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.Job 16:7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

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People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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