Lamentations 3:12

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 38:2

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely.

Job 7:20

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

Lamentations 2:4

He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary, and has slain all who were pleasant to the eye. He has poured out his wrath like fire in the tent of the daughter of Zion.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.