Lamentations 3:12
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
In Context
11He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
13He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 16:12I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.
Psalms 7:13He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
Lamentations 2:4He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath 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 →