Lamentations 3:10

WEB

¹⁰He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.

KJV

¹⁰He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

BSB

¹⁰He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

FBV

¹⁰He is a bear that lies in wait for me, a lion in hiding ready to attack,

Extra References

Job 10:16

¹⁶If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

⁷Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path. ⁸I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

Hosea 6:1

¹“Come! Let’s return to the LORD; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

Hosea 5:14

¹⁴For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

Psalms 10:9

⁹He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Isaiah 38:13

¹³I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

Amos 5:18-20

¹⁸“Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light. ¹⁹As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him. ²⁰Won’t the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Psalms 17:12

¹²He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.