Lamentations 3:10

10 Daleth He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places.

Lamentations 3:10 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:10

He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait
For its prey, which seizes on it at once, and tears it in pieces; such were the Chaldeans to the Jews by divine permission: [and as] a lion in secret places;
lurking there, in order to take every opportunity and advantage, and fall upon any creature that comes that way. The same thing is signified here as before; see ( Hosea 5:14 ) .

Lamentations 3:10 In-Context

8 Gimel Even when I cried and shouted, he shut out my prayer.

9 Gimel He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.

10 Daleth He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places.

11 Daleth He has made my ways crooked and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

12 Daleth He has bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.