Lamentations 3:11

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

Cross-reference

Lamentations 3:9 also speaks of God enclosing paths—another image of the same divine restraint and affliction.

Lamentations 1:13 describes God sending fire and a net — same book, same theme of divine judgment making desolate.

Job 16:7 Parallel

Job 16:7 says God has made him desolate — identical phrase 'made desolate' as here, both laments of personal affliction.

Job 16:12 Parallel

Job 16:12 describes God breaking him apart and dashing him to pieces, mirroring the tearing here.

Job 16:13 Parallel

Job 16:13 adds archers and slashing kidneys — intensifying the violent attack imagery.

Psalm 50:22 Parallel

Psalm 50:22 warns that God will tear apart those who forget him — same divine tearing action.

Jeremiah 5:6 uses lion, wolf, leopard to describe tearing judgment — echoes the tearing here.

Jeremiah 6:8 Prophetic fulfillment

Jeremiah 6:8 warns God will make Jerusalem a desolation — Lamentations 3:11 describes that desolation realized.

Jeremiah 19:8 describes Jerusalem made desolate—the same fate reflected in the personal desolation here.

Hosea 6:1 Contrast

Hosea 6:1 echoes God tearing but promises healing — adds restoration to the same divine action of tearing.

Micah 5:8 Contrast

In Micah 5:8, Israel's remnant tears enemies like a lion — opposite of the speaker here being torn by God.

Matthew 23:38 records Jesus declaring the house left desolate, directly echoing the desolation of Jerusalem seen here.

Jeremiah 9:10 laments burned pastures and silence — broader land desolation echoing the personal desolation here.

Isaiah 3:26 Parallel

Isaiah 3:26 depicts Jerusalem stripped and mourning — similar desolation imagery to being torn and made desolate.

Jeremiah 32:43 speaks of the land lying desolate, echoing the desolation experienced individually in this verse.