Lamentations 3:13

Easy-to-Read Version

He shot me in the stomach with his arrows.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He pierced my kidneyswith shafts from his quiver.

Hebrew Names Version
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

King James Version
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

English Standard Version
He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;

New American Standard Bible
He made the arrows of His quiver Enter my inward parts.

New Century Version
He shot me in the kidneys with the arrows from his bag.

Amplified Bible
He has caused the arrows of His quiver To enter my inner parts.

World English Bible
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.

Legacy Standard Bible
He made the arrows of His quiverTo enter into my inward parts.

Berean Standard Bible
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

Contemporary English Version
straight through my heart.

Complete Jewish Bible
He has pierced my vital organs with shafts from his quiver.

Darby Translation
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

George Lamsa Translation
Behold, he has caused his arrows to enter into my reins.

Good News Translation
He shot his arrows deep into my body.

Lexham English Bible
He shot the arrows of his quiver into my kidneys.

Literal Translation
He caused the sons of His quiver to enter into my inward parts.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The arowes of his quyuer hath he shot, euen in to my reynes.

American Standard Version
He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Bible in Basic English
He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins.

King James Version (1611)
Hee hath caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The arrowes of his quiuer hath he shot, euen into my reynes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

English Revised Version
He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He. He sente in my reynes the douytris of his arowe caas.

Update Bible Version
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

New English Translation

ה (He)

He shot his arrows into my heart.

New King James Version
He has caused the arrows of His quiverTo pierce my loins. [fn]

New Living Translation
He shot his arrows deep into my heart.

New Life Bible
He has taken out His arrows and sent them into my heart.

New Revised Standard
He shot into my vitals the arrows of his quiver;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He hath caused to enter my reins, the sons of his quiver;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.

Revised Standard Version
He drove into my heart the arrows of his quiver;

Young's Literal Translation
He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.

THE MESSAGE
He shot me in the stomach with arrows from his quiver. Everyone took me for a joke, made me the butt of their mocking ballads. He forced rotten, stinking food down my throat, bloated me with vile drinks.

Contextual Overview

¹ I am a man who has seen much trouble. God beat us with a stick, and I saw it happen. ² He led and brought me into darkness, not light. ³ He turned his hand against me. He did this again and again, all day. ⁴ He wore out my flesh and skin. He broke my bones. ⁵ He built up bitterness and trouble against me. He surrounded me with bitterness and trouble. ⁶ He put me in the dark, like someone who died long ago. ⁷ He shut me in, so I could not get out. He put heavy chains on me. ⁸ Even when I cry out and ask for help, he does not listen to my prayer. ⁹ He has blocked up my path with stones. He has made my path crooked. ¹⁰ He is like a bear about to attack me, like a lion that is in a hiding place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

arrows: Heb. sons, Deuteronomy 32:23, Job 6:4, Job 41:28

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 35:23 - the archers Job 16:13 - he cleaveth Psalms 7:13 - ordaineth Psalms 64:7 - God Psalms 73:21 - in my Psalms 91:5 - nor Psalms 102:4 - heart Lamentations 2:4 - bent

Cross-References

Genesis 3:4
But the snake said to the woman, "You will not die.

Genesis 3:6
The woman could see that the tree was beautiful and the fruit looked so good to eat. She also liked the idea that it would make her wise. So she took some of the fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave him some of the fruit, and he ate it.

Genesis 3:9
The Lord God called to the man and said, "Where are you?"

Genesis 3:10
The man said, "I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid. I was naked, so I hid."

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman you put here with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I ate it."

Genesis 44:15
Joseph said to them, "Why have you done this? Didn't you know that I have a special way of learning secrets? No one is better at this than I am!"

1 Samuel 13:11
Samuel asked, "What have you done?" Saul answered, "I saw the soldiers leaving me. You were not here on time, and the Philistines were gathering at Micmash.

2 Samuel 3:24
Joab came to the king and said, "What have you done? Abner came to you, but you sent him away without hurting him! Why?

John 18:35
Pilate said, "I'm not a Jew! It was your own people and their leading priests who brought you before me. What have you done wrong?"

1 Timothy 2:14
Also, Adam was not the one who was tricked. It was the woman who was tricked and became a sinner.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver,.... Or, "the sons of his quiver" i; an usual Hebraism; the quiver is compared, as Aben Ezra observes, to a pregnant woman; and Horace has a like expression, "venenatis gravidam sagittis pharetram" k; the judgments of God are often signified by this metaphor, even his four sore ones, sword, famine, pestilence, and noisome beast, Deuteronomy 32:23; these, says the prophet, he caused

to enter into my reins; that is, into the midst of his land and people, or into the city of Jerusalem; or these affected his mind and heart as if so many arrows had stuck in him, the poison of which drank up his spirits, Job 6:4.

i בני אשפתו "filios pharetrae suae", Montanus, Munster, Cocceius, Michaelis. k L. 1. Ode 22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape.

Lamentations 3:11

The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.”

Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah.

Lamentations 3:12

This new simile arises out of the former one, the idea of a hunter being suggested by that of the bear and lion. When the hunter comes, it is not to save him.

Lamentations 3:14

Metaphor is dropped, and Jeremiah shows the real nature of the arrows which rankled in him so deeply.

Lamentations 3:15

“He hath” filled me to the full with bitterness, i. e. bitter sorrows Job 9:18.

Lamentations 3:16

Broken my teeth with gravel stones - His bread was so filled with grit that in eating it his teeth were broken.

Lamentations 3:17

Prosperity - literally, as in the margin, i. e. I forgot what good was, I lost the very idea of what it meant.

Lamentations 3:18

The prophet reaches the verge of despair. But by struggling against it he reaches at length firm ground.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 13. The arrows of his quiver — בני אשפתו beney ashpatho, "The sons of his quiver." The issue or effect; the subject, adjunct, or accident, or produce of a thing, is frequently denominated its son or child. So arrows that issue from a quiver are here termed the sons of the quiver.