Charles Spurgeon Commentary Lamentations 3:10

"He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places." — Lamentations 3:10 (ASV)

He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

He felt as if the justice of God was about to spring upon him. He was afraid to move, lest the crouching lion should leap upon him and tear him in pieces. John Bunyan, in his Grace abounding to the Chief of Sinners, describes in his own experience precisely what the prophet here speaks of.