Pentacost
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
New King James Version
Lamentations 3:12
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- FaussetEncyclopedias:
- InternationalParallel Translations
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 drew his bow and made me the target for his 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
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
And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."
So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.
Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
And the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."
And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
The foolishness of a man twists his way, And his heart frets 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.
