Lamentations 3:47
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New International Version (©2011)
We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction."

New Living Translation (©2007)
We are filled with fear, for we are trapped, devastated, and ruined."

English Standard Version (©2001)
panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
We have experienced panic and pitfall, devastation and destruction.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Panic and pitfalls beset us, along with devastation and ruin.

NET Bible (©2006)
Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Panic and pitfalls have found us, so have devastation and destruction.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Fear and a snare has come upon us, desolation and destruction.

American King James Version
Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction.

American Standard Version
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.

Darby Bible Translation
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.

English Revised Version
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

Webster's Bible Translation
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

World English Bible
Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.

Young's Literal Translation
Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 47. - Fear and a snare. An alliteration in the Hebrew, borrowed from Jeremiah 48:43 (comp. Isaiah 24:17).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Fear and a snare is come upon us,.... Or, "fear and a pit" (m); the fear of failing into the pit of ruin and destruction, on the brink of which they saw themselves; or fear seized us, and caused us to flee; and a snare or pit was prepared for us to fall into; so that there was no escaping hence:

desolation and destruction; desolation or devastation of their land; and destruction of their city and temple; and of multitudes of them by the sword, famine, and pestilence; and the rest carried into captivity, excepting a few left desolate in the land.

(m) "pavor et fovea", Calvin, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

47. Like animals fleeing in fear, we fall into the snare laid for us.

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God's Justice
…46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction. 48My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. …

Isaiah 24:17 Terror and pit and snare await you, people of the earth.
Isaiah 24:18 Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit; whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare. The floodgates of the heavens are opened, the foundations of the earth shake.
Jeremiah 48:43 Terror and pit and snare await you, you people of Moab," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 48:44 "Whoever flees from the terror will fall into a pit, whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in a snare; for I will bring on Moab the year of her punishment," declares the LORD.