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My waysדְּרָכַיhe has turned asideסוֹרֵרand has torn me to pieces;וַיְפַשְּׁחֵנִיhe has made meשָׂמַנִיdesolate.שֹׁמֵם
Lamentations 3:11
Study it in the app“My ways he has turned aside and has torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Lamentations 3:11, word by word
- My waysדְּרָכַderacha
manner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “deracha” appears- he has turned asideסוֹרֵרsorer
turn aside
To leave the road, go away.
Where else “sorer” appears- and has torn me to piecesיְפַשְּׁחֵyefashche
tear in pieces
To tear in pieces, to mangle.
Where else “yefashche” appears- he has made meשָׂמַsama
make
To turn something into another: "I will turn him into a nation".
Where else “sama” appears- desolateשֹׁמֵםshomem
desolate
Desolate, ruined; of a person, abandoned and without comfort.
Where else “shomem” appears
The context
10A bear lying in wait he is to me, a lion in hiding places.
11 · This verse (above)
12He has bent his bow and set me as a target for the arrow.