Lamentations 3:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² he bent his bow and set me as a mark for his arrow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² He hath bent his bow, and set me As a mark for the arrow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² He has bent His bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

Common English Bible

¹² He drew back his bow, made me a shooting target for arrows.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.

Lamentations 3:12 Cross References

Psalm 38:2

For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.

Job 7:20

If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity? Why have you made me your target? Why have I become a burden to you?

Lamentations 2:4

He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; he has killed all those in whom we took pride in the tent of daughter Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.