Lamentations 3:13

Good News Translation

He shot his arrows deep into my body.

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
He shot me in the stomach with his arrows.

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

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 one who knows what it is to be punished by God. ² He drove me deeper and deeper into darkness ³ And beat me again and again with merciless blows. ⁴ He has left my flesh open and raw, and has broken my bones. ⁵ He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish. ⁶ He has forced me to live in the stagnant darkness of death. ⁷ He has bound me in chains; I am a prisoner with no hope of escape. ⁸ I cry aloud for help, but God refuses to listen; ⁹ I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn. ¹⁰ He waited for me like a bear; he pounced on me like a lion.

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
The snake replied, "That's not true; you will not die.

Genesis 3:6
The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it.

Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called out to the man, "Where are you?"

Genesis 3:10
He answered, "I heard you in the garden; I was afraid and hid from you, because I was naked."

Genesis 3:12
The man answered, "The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit, and I ate it."

Genesis 44:15
and Joseph said, "What have you done? Didn't you know that a man in my position could find you out by practicing divination?"

1 Samuel 13:11
but Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul answered, "The people were deserting me, and you had not come when you said you would; besides that, the Philistines are gathering at Michmash.

2 Samuel 3:24
So Joab went to the king and said to him, "What have you done? Abner came to you—why did you let him go like that?

John 18:35
Pilate replied, "Do you think I am a Jew? It was your own people and the chief priests who handed you over to me. What have you done?"

1 Timothy 2:14
And it was not Adam who was deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and broke God's law.

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.