Lamentations 3:47

47 FE formido et laqueus facta est nobis vaticinatio et contritio

Lamentations 3:47 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:47

Fear and a snare is come upon us
Or, "fear and a pit" {m}; the fear of failing into the pit of ruin and destruction, on the brink of which they saw themselves; or fear seized us, and caused us to flee; and a snare or pit was prepared for us to fall into; so that there was no escaping hence: desolation and destruction;
desolation or devastation of their land; and destruction of their city and temple; and of multitudes of them by the sword, famine, and pestilence; and the rest carried into captivity, excepting a few left desolate in the land.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (txpw dxp) "pavor et fovea", Calvin, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.

Lamentations 3:47 In-Context

45 SAMECH eradicationem et abiectionem posuisti me in medio populorum

46 FE aperuerunt super nos os suum omnes inimici

47 FE formido et laqueus facta est nobis vaticinatio et contritio

48 FE divisiones aquarum deduxit oculus meus in contritione filiae populi mei

49 AIN oculus meus adflictus est nec tacuit eo quod non esset requies