Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow and made me a marke for the arrow.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
In Context
11He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
13Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.
Job 16:12I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.
Psalms 7:13Hee hath also prepared him deadly weapons: hee will ordeine his arrowes for them that persecute me.
Lamentations 2:4He hath bent his bowe like an enemie: his right hand was stretched vp as an aduersarie, and slewe al that was pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he powred 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 →