Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Parallel translations
- WEB Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
- BSB Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
- NKJV Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation and destruction.
- NASB Panic and pitfall have come upon us, Devastation and destruction;
- NLT We are filled with fear, for we are trapped, devastated, and ruined.”
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Quick answer
Terror, traps, devastation, and destruction have overtaken them.
Overview
The piled-up words convey the totality of calamity that has befallen Jerusalem. Fear and ruin describe both the siege and its aftermath. The verse expresses the depth of judgment, reminding readers of the seriousness of sin and the comprehensiveness of the doom from which only God can deliver (Isa. 24:17-18).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 51:19These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
- Isa 24:17–18Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
- Jer 48:43–44Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
- Lam 1:13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
- Luke 21:35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
- Lam 1:4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
- Lam 2:1–9How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
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Christ at the center
The weeping over a ruined city and the steadfast mercies that are new every morning point to the man of sorrows who wept over Jerusalem and whose mercy rises new from the grave.
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