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Lamentations 3:12
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He strung his bowand set me as the target for his arrow.
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
He bent His bow And took aim at me as a target for the arrow.
He prepared to shoot his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
He has bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow.
He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.
He bent His bowAnd set me as a target for the arrow.
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
God took careful aim and shot his arrows
He has bent his bow and used me as a target for his arrows.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He made his bow ready. He made me the target for his arrows.
He has bent his bow, and set me up as a mark for the arrow.
He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
He has bent his bow and set me as the target for the arrow.
He has trod His bow and set me up as a mark for the arrow.
He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marck to shute at.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow.
He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at.
HE. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Deleth. He bente his bowe, and settide me as a signe to an arowe.
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow.
He has drawn his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
He used His bow, and set me as a mark for His arrow.
he bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrow.
He hath trodden his bow, and set me up, as a mark for the arrow.
Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
he bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrow.
He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.
Contextual Overview
א (Alef)
I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath. 2 He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light. 3 He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long. 4ב (Bet)
He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones. 5 He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship. 6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago. 7ג (Gimel)
He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains. 8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer. 9 He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. 10ד (Dalet)
To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
bent: Job 6:4, Job 7:20, Job 16:12, Job 16:13, Psalms 7:12, Psalms 7:13, Psalms 38:2
Reciprocal: Psalms 21:12 - make Psalms 64:7 - God Psalms 91:5 - nor Lamentations 2:4 - bent Ezekiel 5:16 - the evil
Cross-References
The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."
So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.
Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
So the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman replied, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."
And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."
The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
The Lord God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.
if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,
A person's folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the Lord .
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He hath bent his bow,.... Which is put for all the instruments, of war; the Chaldeans were archers, and shot their arrows into the city:
and set me as a mark for the arrow; as a target to shoot at; signifying that God dealt with him, or his people, as enemies, the object of his wrath and indignation; and if he directed his arrow against them, it must needs hit them; there was no escaping his vengeance; see Job 7:20.
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 12. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. — One might conjecture that the following thought in the Toozek i Teemour was borrowed from this: -
"One addressed the caliph Aaly, and said, 'If the heavens were a bow, and the earth the cord thereof; if calamities were arrows, man the butt for those arrows; and the holy blessed God the unerring marksman; where could the sons of Adam flee for succour?' The caliph replied, 'The children of Adam must flee unto the Lord.'" This was the state of poor Jerusalem. It seemed as a butt for all God's arrows; and each arrow of calamity entered into the soul, for God was the unerring marksman.
