Lamentations 3:12
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
In Context
11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.
13He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 16:12I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
Psalms 7:13He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.
Lamentations 2:4He has bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury 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 →