Lamentations 3:12
He bent his bow, and setted me as a sign to an arrow. (He bent his bow, and made me a target for his arrows.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
In Context
11He destroyed my paths, and brake me; he setted me desolate (or he left me desolate).
13He sent in (to) my reins the daughters of his arrow case.
Cross References
Job 6:4For (now) the arrows of the Lord be in me, the indignation of which drinketh up my spirit; and the dreads of the Lord fight against me (or and the terrors from the Lord fight against me).
Job 16:12I, that rich man and famous sometime, am all-broken suddenly; he held my noll; he hath broken me, and hath set me as into a sign. (I, that rich and sometimes famous man, am suddenly all-broken; he held me by the neck; he hath altogether broken me, and hath set me up like a target.)
Psalms 7:13And therein he hath made ready the vessels of death; he hath fully made his arrows with burning things (or he hath set his arrows on fire).
Lamentations 2:4He as an enemy bent his bow, he as an adversary made steadfast his right hand; and he killed all thing that was fair in sight in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion; he shedded out his indignation as fire. (He bent his bow like an enemy, he made steadfast, or firm, his right hand like an adversary; and he killed everything that was beautiful in sight in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he poured out his anger 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 →