Lamentations 3:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

He is to me like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, And as a lion in secret places.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He is to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion [hiding] in secret places.

American Standard Version (1901)

He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

Common English Bible

He is a bear lurking for me, a lion in hiding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

Lamentations 3:10 Cross References

Job 10:16

And if I lift myself up, thou dost hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me;

Psalm 10:9

he lurks in secret like a lion in his covert; he lurks that he may seize the poor, he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

Psalm 17:12

They are like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.

Isaiah 38:13

I cry for help until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night thou dost bring me to an end.

Lamentations 3:11

he led me off my way and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;

Lamentations 3:9

he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.

Hosea 5:14

For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will rend and go away, I will carry off, and none shall rescue.

Hosea 6:1

“Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up.