Lamentations 3:12
He bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
In Context
11he turned aside my paths, he has made me desolate. 1
13He pierced my kidneys with the arrows of his quiver. 1
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are in me, 1 my spirit drinks up the poison; 1 the terrors of God have arranged themselves in array against me. 1
Job 16:12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. 1 Indeed, he has taken me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; 1 he has also set me up as his target. 1
Psalms 7:13He prepares to use weapons against him; 1 he makes his arrows flaming shafts. 1
Lamentations 2:4Like an enemy he has bent his bow toward us, 1 with his right is ready to shoot. 1 He has slaughtered all who had been so pleasing to him in the tent of the daughter of Zion; 1 he has poured out his wrath like fire. 1
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 →