KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Lamentations 3:8–10
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Lamentations 3:8
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9
9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
9Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.
Lamentations 3:10
10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
10He was vnto me as a Beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.
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DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 3:8
A loud cry or sudden outburst of voices; as a verb, to utter such a cry.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Lamentations 3:9
Surrounded; encompassed; confined on all sides; covered and sealed; fenced.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Cut, carved, or shaped with an axe, chisel, or other tool.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A piece or mass of rock; also to strike or kill with stones, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Ways, tracks, or courses followed in travel or conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Bent, curved, winding, or not straight.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Lamentations 3:10
To carry, support, endure, produce, bring forth, or sustain, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To remain in expectation or readiness; to attend or serve; as a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A large, powerful wild cat; figuratively, one fierce or strong.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Locations, positions, rooms, occasions, offices, or passages, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 8
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Open the full verse study20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
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Open the full verse study2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
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Open the full verse study7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
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Open the full verse study44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
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Open the full verse study46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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Open the full verse study2O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
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Open the full verse study4O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study17¶ O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
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Open the full verse study6¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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Open the full verse study28And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
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Open the full verse study11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
From verse 10
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Open the full verse study18Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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Open the full verse study7Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
8I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
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Open the full verse study14For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
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Open the full verse study1COME, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
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Open the full verse study13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
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Open the full verse study16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
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Open the full verse study9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
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Open the full verse study12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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