Lamentations 3:47
3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
KJV
Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction.
What does Lamentations 3:47 mean?
Lamentations 3:47 is a verse in the book of Lamentations, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include פַּחַד (pachad), פַּחַת (pachath), שֵׁאת (shêʼth). It connects to 11 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.
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HENRY_FULL · Lamentations 3:47
Psalms 45:2Isaiah 24:17
Cross-references
Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Psalms 45:5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Jeremiah 1:18For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
Jeremiah 15:19Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
Jeremiah 15:20And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
Hosea 6:5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. and: or, that thy judgments might be, etc
Luke 23:46And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Hebrews 4:12For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Revelation 1:16And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Revelation 2:12And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
Revelation 19:15And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Verses like this
Other verses that share key original-language words with Lamentations 3:47.
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah 24:18And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Frequently asked questions
What does Lamentations 3:47 say?
Lamentations 3:47 (King James Version) reads: "Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction."
Is Lamentations 3:47 in the Old or New Testament?
Lamentations 3:47 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Lamentations.
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