Lamentations 3:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.”
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BSBPD
“He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:12 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
- Job 16:12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
- Psalms 7:12If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
- Psalms 7:13He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
- Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
- Lamentations 2:4He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
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