Lamentations 3:12
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New International Version (©2011)
He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He has drawn his bow and made me the target for his arrows.

English Standard Version (©2001)
he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He strung His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He bent his bow, aiming at me with his arrow.

NET Bible (©2006)
He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He has drawn his bow and made me the target for his arrows.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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

Young's Literal Translation
He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks that his strength and hope are perished from the Lord.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - Set me as a mark. Precisely as Job complains of Jehovah, "He hath set me up for his mark" (Job 16:13).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

12. (Job 7:20).

He.

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Jeremiah's Afflictions
…11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate. 12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. 13He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. …

Job 6:4 The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God's terrors are marshaled against me.
Job 7:20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?
Job 16:12 All was well with me, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;
Psalm 7:12 If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.
Psalm 38:2 Your arrows have pierced me, and your hand has come down on me.
Lamentations 2:4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow; his right hand is ready. Like a foe he has slain all who were pleasing to the eye; he has poured out his wrath like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.