Lamentations 3:12
He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
In Context
11My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.
13He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.
Cross References
Job 6:4For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!
Job 16:12At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.
Psalms 7:13Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.
Lamentations 2:4He hath trodden His bow as an enemy, Stood hath His right hand as an adversary, And He slayeth all the desirable ones of the eye, In the tent of the daughter of Zion, He hath poured out as fire His fury.
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 →