Lamentations 3:10

Contemporary English Version 1995

God was like a bear or a lion waiting in ambush for me;

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Let's return to the Lord. He has torn us to shreds, but he will bandage our wounds and make us well.

So I'll become a fierce lion attacking Israel and Judah. I'll snatch and carry off what I want, and no one can stop me.

Until morning came, I thought you would crush my bones just like a hungry lion; both night and day you make a wreck of me.

They are hungry lions hiding in the bushes, hoping to catch some helpless passerby. They trap the poor in nets and drag them away.

No matter how hard I try, you keep hunting me down like a powerful lion.

They are like hungry lions hunting for food, or like young lions hiding in ambush.

God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path.

he dragged me from the road, then tore me to shreds.