¹⁰ He was a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in secret places. ¹¹ He has turned my ways aside and torn me in pieces. He made me desolate. ¹² He has bent His bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.

Cross References

Hosea 6:1

Come and let us return to Jehovah. For He has torn, and He will heal us; He has stricken, and He will bind us up.

Job 16:12-13

I was at ease, but He has broken me in pieces; yea, He has also taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for His mark.

Lamentations 1:13

From above He has sent fire into my bones and it has laid them low. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me amazed and faint all the day.

Job 16:7

But now He has made me weary; You have made all my company desolate.

Psalm 50:22

Now think of this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall sit deserted on the ground.

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, and a wolf of the deserts shall rob them; a leopard shall watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from them shall be torn in pieces, because their sins are many and their backslidings are multiplied.

Jeremiah 6:8

O Jerusalem, you must be instructed, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land without people.

Jeremiah 9:10-11

I will take up a weeping and a wailing for the mountains, and a mourning for the pastures of the wilderness; because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; nor can men hear the voice of the cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.

Jeremiah 19:8

And I will make this city a waste and a hissing. Everyone who passes by shall be amazed and shall hiss because of all its plagues.

Jeremiah 32:43

And fields shall be bought in this land of which you say, It is a desert without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 51:20-22

You are My war-club and weapons of war; for with you I will shatter nations; and with you I will destroy kingdoms.

Daniel 2:40-44

And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron. Since iron crushes and smashes all things; and as the iron that shatters all these, it will crush and shatter.

Daniel 7:23

And he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth, and shall trample it and crush it.

Micah 5:8

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goes through, both tramples and tears in pieces. And there is none to snatch back.

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, by which all who had ships in the sea were rich out of her costliness! For in one hour she was ruined.