¹⁰ He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places. ¹¹ He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces;
He has made me desolate.
¹² With his bow bent, he made me the target for his arrows.

Cross References

Hosea 6:1

Come, and let us return to Jehovah. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us. He has wounded us but he will bandage us.

Job 16:12-13

I was at ease, but he shattered me. He has grabbed me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces. He has also set me up as his target.

Lamentations 1:13

He sends fire into my bones from on high. It overcomes them. His net is stretched out for my feet. He turns me back. He made me waste and feeble all the day.

Job 16:7

He has exhausted me. You have lain waste all my company.

Psalm 50:22

Consider this, you who do not remember God. Otherwise, I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one to deliver.

Isaiah 3:26

Her (Zion's) gates will lament and mourn and she will sit on the ground deserted.

Jeremiah 5:6

That is why lions from the forest will kill them. Wolves from the desert will tear them to pieces, and leopards will prowl through their towns. If those people go out, they will be torn apart because their sins are numerous and time after time they have turned from God.

Jeremiah 6:8

Be warned, O Jerusalem, I will be alienated from you. I will make you desolation, a land not inhabited.

Jeremiah 9:10-11

I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

Jeremiah 32:43

Fields will be bought in this land of which you say: It is desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'

Jeremiah 51:20-22

He says: You are my war-club, my weapon of war. I shatter nations with you and with you I destroy kingdoms.

Daniel 2:40-44

The fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, since iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things. It is iron that crushes all these. It will break in pieces and crush.

Daniel 7:23

He said: 'The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom on earth. It will be different from all other kingdoms. It will devour the entire earth. It will trample it down and break it in pieces.

Micah 5:8

The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. It will be like a lion among the beasts of the forest. Should he go through he will be like a young lion among the flocks of sheep. He treads down and tears to pieces. There is none to rescue.

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house is left desolate.

Revelation 18:19

They threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying: 'Woe, woe to the great city. All that had ships in the sea became rich by her wealth. In one hour she was made desolate.'