Lamentations 3:12
Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
In Context
11Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.
13He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.
Job 16:12God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
Psalms 7:13Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword: he hath bent his bow and made it ready.
Lamentations 2:4Daleth. He hath bent his bow as an enemy, he hath fixed his right hand as an adversary: and he hath killed all that was fair to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion, he hath 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 →