King James Version
Lamentations 3:10 in the King James Version says “He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.”
Lamentations 3:10 · KJV
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
KJV Study — Public Domain
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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