Lamentations 3:13

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.

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.

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.

Contextual Overview

¹ I'm the man who has seen trouble, trouble coming from the lash of God 's anger. He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness. Yes, he's given me the back of his hand over and over and over again. ⁴He turned me into a scarecrow of skin and bones, then broke the bones. He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times. He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin. ⁷He shuts me in so I'll never get out, manacles my hands, shackles my feet. Even when I cry out and plead for help, he locks up my prayers and throws away the key. He sets up blockades with quarried limestone. He's got me cornered. ¹⁰He's a prowling bear tracking me down, a lion in hiding ready to pounce. He knocked me from the path and ripped me to pieces. When he finished, there was nothing left of me. He took out his bow and arrows and used me for target practice. ¹³He 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. ¹⁶He ground my face into the gravel. He pounded me into the mud. I gave up on life altogether. I've forgotten what the good life is like. I said to myself, "This is it. I'm finished. God is a lost cause." ¹⁹I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all—oh, how well I remember— the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:

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 serpent told the Woman, "You won't die. God knows that the moment you eat from that tree, you'll see what's really going on. You'll be just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good to evil."

Genesis 3:6
When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it—she'd know everything!—she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate.

Genesis 3:9
God called to the Man: "Where are you?"

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

Genesis 3:12
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"

Genesis 44:15
Joseph accused them: "How can you have done this? You have to know that a man in my position would have discovered this."

1 Samuel 13:11
Samuel said, "What on earth are you doing?" Saul answered, "When I saw I was losing my army from under me, and that you hadn't come when you said you would, and that the Philistines were poised at Micmash, I said, ‘The Philistines are about to come down on me in Gilgal, and I haven't yet come before God asking for his help.' So I took things into my own hands, and sacrificed the burnt offering."

2 Samuel 3:24
Joab went straight to the king: "What's this you've done? Abner shows up, and you let him walk away scot-free? You know Abner son of Ner better than that. This was no friendly visit. He was here to spy on you, figure out your comings and goings, find out what you're up to."

John 18:35
Pilate said, "Do I look like a Jew? Your people and your high priests turned you over to me. What did you do?"

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.