Lamentations 3:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He hath bent his bow, and set me As a mark for the arrow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He has bent His bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.

American Standard Version (1901)

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

Common English Bible

He drew back his bow, made me a shooting target for arrows.

Catholic Public Domain Version

DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Daleth. He hath bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrows.

Lamentations 3:12 Cross References

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Job 7:20

If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

Psalm 38:2

For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.

Lamentations 2:4

He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, and hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his fury like fire.