King James Version
Lamentations 3:11 in the King James Version says “He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.”
Lamentations 3:11 · KJV
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.
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. arrows: Heb. sons
KJV Study — Public Domain
“my ways”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“he hath made”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“me desolate”
H8074to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e., devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
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