Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.
New American Standard Bible
Devastation and destruction;
King James Version
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Holman Bible
devastation and destruction.
International Standard Version
Panic and pitfalls beset us, along with devastation and ruin.
A Conservative Version
Fear and the pit have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
American Standard Version
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
Amplified
Panic and pitfall (traps, danger) have come on us,
Devastation and destruction.
Bible in Basic English
Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.
Darby Translation
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.
Julia Smith Translation
Fear and a snare were to us, desolation and breaking
King James 2000
Fear and a snare has come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Fear and a pit have come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Modern King James verseion
Fear and a pit have come to us, shame and ruin.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Fear and snare is come upon us; yea, despite and destruction.
NET Bible
Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
New Heart English Bible
Fear and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.
The Emphasized Bible
Terror and a pit, have befallen us, tumult and grievous injury;
Webster
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.
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:47
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
46 Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies. 47 Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction. 48 Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Cross References
Isaiah 24:17-18
Fear, and a snare, and a gin, Are on thee, O inhabitant of the land.
Isaiah 51:19
These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction -- Famine and sword, who -- I comfort thee?
Jeremiah 48:43-44
Fear, and a snare, and a gin, are for thee, O inhabitant of Moab -- an affirmation of Jehovah,
Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness.
Lamentations 1:13
From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.
Lamentations 2:1-9
How doth the Lord cloud in His anger the daughter of Zion, He hath cast from heaven to earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.
Luke 21:35
for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,