Lamentations 3:10
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New International Version (©2011)
Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,

New Living Translation (©2007)
He has hidden like a bear or a lion, waiting to attack me.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He is a bear waiting in ambush, a lion in hiding.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He is like a bear that lies in wait for me, a lion in hiding.

NET Bible (©2006)
To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He is like a bear waiting to ambush me, like a lion in hiding.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

American King James Version
He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

American Standard Version
He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

Darby Bible Translation
He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.

English Revised Version
He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

Webster's Bible Translation
He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

World English Bible
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

Young's Literal Translation
A bear lying in wait He is to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks that his strength and hope are perished from the Lord.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - Was; rather, is. As a bear...as a lion. The comparison of the enemy to a lion is not uncommon; see e.g. Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 5:6 (see note); 49:19; 1:44; Psalm 10:9; Psalm 17:12; Job 10:16. The bear is only once mentioned in such a context (Hosea 13:8). The two latter passages may possibly have been in the mind of the writer, as Jehovah is in both the subject of the comparison.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10-13. (Job 10:16; Ho 13:7, 8).

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Jeremiah's Afflictions
…9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked. 10He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. 11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate. …

Job 10:16 If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.
Lamentations 3:9 He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:11 he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.
Hosea 13:7 So I will be like a lion to them, like a leopard I will lurk by the path.