Lamentations 3:11 Meaning and Explanation
“He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does Lamentations 3:11 Mean?
The predator image continues. Like a beast that drags its prey off the road into the thicket, God has 'turned aside my ways' and 'pulled me in pieces.' The sufferer feels seized, torn, scattered. Every sense of wholeness and direction has been ripped away.
'He hath made me desolate.' The result of all this tearing is desolation, an emptiness and ruin where a life used to be. The word echoes the desolation of the city in earlier chapters; the man's personal undoing mirrors his people's. He has reached a kind of bottom. And it is precisely from such a bottom, in just a few verses, that the most luminous words in the book will rise.
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What does Lamentations 3:11 mean?
He feels dragged from his path, torn apart, and left desolate.