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Lamentations 3:11 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. "
Lamentations 3:11
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He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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Lamentations 3:1
"I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath."
Lamentations 3:2
"He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light."
Lamentations 3:3
"Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day."
Lamentations 3:4
"My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones."
Lamentations 3:5
"He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."
Lamentations 3:6
"He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old."
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