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Lamentations 3:9-11
Contemporary English Version

9 God put big rocks in my way
and made me follow
    a crooked path.
10 God was like a bear or a lion
    waiting in ambush for me;
11 he dragged me from the road,
    then tore me to shreds.[a]

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  1. 3.11 shreds: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 11.
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Lamentations 3:9-11
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9 He has barred(A) my way with blocks of stone;
    he has made my paths crooked.(B)

10 Like a bear lying in wait,
    like a lion(C) in hiding,(D)
11 he dragged me from the path and mangled(E) me
    and left me without help.

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