Lamentations 3:12
He loaded his bow with an arrow and used me as his target,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
In Context
11He dragged me from my path and ripped me to pieces, leaving me helpless.
13He shot me in my kidneys with his arrows.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; their poison saps my spirit. God's terrors are lined up against me.
Job 16:12I was living in peace and he smashed me to pieces. He grabbed me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target.
Psalms 7:13He has prepared weapons of death, he has his flaming arrows ready.
Lamentations 2:4He has fired arrows from his bow as if he were their enemy; he has used his power against them like an attacker. He has killed all the beloved children; he has poured out his anger like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
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 →