Lamentations 3:13

It is as though he shot his arrows deep into my body.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

In Context

12It is as though [MET] he bent his bow and caused me to become the target at which he shot his arrows.

14All my relatives laugh at me; all day, every day they sing songs that make fun of me.

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Cross References

Job 6:4It is as though Almighty God has shot me with arrows. It is as though those arrows had poison on their tips, and that poison has gone into my spirit. The things that God has done to me have terrified me.

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 →

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