Lamentations 3:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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 passer-by. 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.