Lamentations 3:3

New International Reader's Version

He has turned his powerful hand against me. He has done it again and again, all day long.

Cross References

Job 16:12

Everything was going well with me. But he broke me into pieces like a clay pot. He grabbed me by the neck and crushed me. He has taken aim at me.

Job 19:21

“Have pity on me, my friends! Please have pity! God has struck me down with his powerful hand.

Job 31:21

Suppose I’ve raised my hand against children whose fathers have died. And I did it because I knew I had power in the courts.

Job 6:4

The Mighty One has shot me with his arrows. I have to drink their poison. God’s terrors are aimed at me.

Psalm 38:2

You have wounded me with your arrows. You have struck me with your hand.

Isaiah 1:25

I will turn my power against you. I will make you completely ‘clean.’ I will remove everything that is not pure.

Isaiah 5:25

So the Lord is angry with his people. He raises his hand against them and strikes them down. The mountains shake. The bodies of dead people lie in the streets like trash. Even then, the Lord is still angry. His hand is still raised against them.

Isaiah 63:10

But they refused to obey him. They made his Holy Spirit sad. So he turned against them and became their enemy. He himself fought against them.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will never be willing to forgive those people. His great anger will blaze out against them. All the curses I’ve written down in this book will fall on them. And the Lord will erase any mention of them from the earth.