Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 3:11

"He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate." — Lamentations 3:11 (ASV)

He has turned aside. —The terror caused by the lion turns the traveler from his path, and there is no other; and then comes the attack by which he is torn in pieces.

He has made me desolate. —Better, made me astonied, as in Ezra 9:3. The verb (which occurs forty times in Jeremiah’s prophecies and three times in Lamentations), paints the stupefaction of terror.