Lamentations 3:11

11 he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.

Lamentations 3:11 in Other Translations

11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

11 he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;

11 He has dragged me off the path and torn me in pieces, leaving me helpless and devastated.

11 He knocked me from the path and ripped me to pieces. When he finished, there was nothing left of me.

11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

11 He has forced me off the road I was taking, torn me to pieces, and left me with nothing.

11 He forced me off my way and tore me to pieces; He left me desolate.

11 He has dragged me off the path. He has torn me to pieces. And he has left me helpless.

Lamentations 3:11 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:11

He hath turned aside my ways
Or caused me to depart or go back from the way I was in, and so fall into the hand of the enemy that lay in wait, as before. Jarchi interprets the word of thorns, and of scattering the way with thorns, and hedging it up with them, so that there was no passing, ( Hosea 2:6 ) ; the sense seems to be the same with ( Lamentations 3:9 ) ; and pulled me in pieces:
as any creature that falls into the hands of a bear or lion. Jarchi says it signifies a stopping of the feet, so that the traveller cannot go on in his way; and in the Talmudic language it is used for the breaking off of branches of trees, which being strowed in the way, hinder passengers from travelling; and this sense agrees with what goes before: he hath made me desolate;
or brought me into a desolate condition, into ruin and destruction, as the Jews were in Babylon.

Lamentations 3:11 In-Context

9 He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.

10 Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,

11 he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.

12 He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.

13 He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.

Cross References

• 1. Hosea 6:1