Lamentations 3:10

10 He is made (like) a bear setting ambush to me, (like) a lion in hid 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 But and when I cry and pray, he hath excluded my prayer.

9 He closed together my ways with square stones; he destroyed my paths. (He altogether enclosed my ways with square stones; he destroyed my paths.)

10 He is made (like) a bear setting ambush to me, (like) a lion in hid places.

11 He destroyed my paths, and brake me; he setted me desolate (he left me desolate).

12 He bent his bow, and setted me as a sign to an arrow. (He bent his bow, and made me a target for his arrows.)