Lamentations 3:12
DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
In Context
11DALETH. He has subverted my paths, and he has broken me. He has placed me in desolation.
13HE. He has shot into my kidneys the daughters of his quiver.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, my spirit drinks of their indignation, and the terrors of the Lord are soldiers against me.
Job 16:12God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
Psalms 7:13Unless you will be converted, he will brandish his sword. He has extended his bow and made it ready.
Lamentations 2:4DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →