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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:47 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Fear
pachad (Hebrew #6343)
a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
KJV usage: dread(-ful), fear, (thing) great (fear, -ly feared), terror.
Pronounce: pakh'-ad
Origin: from 6342
k and a snare
pachath (Hebrew #6354)
a pit, especially for catching animals
KJV usage: hole, pit, snare.
Pronounce: pakh'-ath
Origin: probably from an unused root apparently meaning to dig
is come upon us, desolation
she'th (Hebrew #7612)
devastation
KJV usage: desolation.
Pronounce: shayth
Origin: from 7582
l and destruction
sheber (Hebrew #7667)
from 7665; a fracture, figuratively, ruin; specifically, a solution (of a dream)
KJV usage: affliction, breach, breaking, broken(-footed, -handed), bruise, crashing, destruction, hurt, interpretation, vexation.
Pronounce: sheh'-ber
Origin: or sheber {shay'-ber}
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Isa. 24:17• 17Fear, and the pit, and the snare [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth . (Isa. 24:17)
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Isa. 51:19• 19These two [things] are befallen thee; who will bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and famine and sword; how shall I comfort thee? (Isa. 51:19)

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Cross References

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Fear.
Isa. 24:17‑18• 17Fear, and the pit, and the snare [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth .
 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 on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth do shake. (Isa. 24:17‑18)
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Isa. 51:19• 19These two [things] are befallen thee; who will bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and famine and sword; how shall I comfort thee? (Isa. 51:19)
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Jer. 48:43‑44• 43Fear and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith Jehovah.
 44He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation saith Jehovah. (Jer. 48:43‑44)
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Luke 21:35• 35for as a snare it will come upon all that are settled down upon the face of the whole earth. (Luke 21:35)
desolation.
Lam. 1:4,13• 4{i}The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly:{HR}All her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are in grief;{HR}And as for her, she is in bitterness.{/i}
 13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them:{HR}He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back:{HR}He hath made me desolate and faint all the day. (Lam. 1:4,13)
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Lam. 2:1‑9• 1How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with the cloud in his anger,{HR}And cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,{HR}And remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger.
 2The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied:{HR}He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;{HR}He hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
 3He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel:{HR}He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy,{HR}And he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
 4He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary,{HR}And slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion:{HR}He poured out his fury like fire.
 5The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel,{HR}He hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strongholds,{HR}And hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
 6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden:{HR}He hath destroyed his places of the assembly.{HR}Jehovah hath caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion,{HR}And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
 7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,{HR}He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;{HR}They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn feast.
 8Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion:{HR}He hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:{HR}Therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
 9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars:{HR}Her king and her princes are among the Gentiles:{HR}The law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah. (Lam. 2:1‑9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruine.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "breach." see Jer. 6.14; 8.21; Amos 6.6.

W. Kelly Translation

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Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.