King James Version
Lamentations 3:3 in the King James Version says “Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.”
Lamentations 3:3 · KJV
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Surely against me is he turned”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“he turneth”
H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
“his hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“against me all the day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
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