Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and placed me as a mark for the arrow.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
In Context
11On my ways hath he placed thorns, and torn me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
13He hath caused to enter into my reins the children of his quiver.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh it: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 16:12I was at ease, but he hath crushed me; he hath also grasped me by the neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up unto himself as a mark;
Psalms 7:13(7:14) Also for him he prepareth the instruments of death; he fashioneth his arrows against the persecutors.
Lamentations 2:4He bent his bow like an enemy; he held out his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion did he pour out like fire his fury.
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 →