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Lamentations 3:47

Lamentations chapter 3 · verse 47 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

Context

v.46All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

v.47This passage

v.48Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 48:43

    Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith Jehovah.

  • Luke 21:35

    for so shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of all the earth.

  • Lamentations 1:13

    From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Lamentations 1:4

    The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

  • Lamentations 2:1

    How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

  • Isaiah 51:19

    These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?