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Lamentations 3:12

Lamentations 3:12 is verse 12 of Lamentations chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

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

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

Lamentations 3:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible

10 He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

11 He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.

12 He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

13 He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

14 I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Job 7:20
If 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 16:12
I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

Job 16:13
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

Psalms 7:12
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

Psalms 7:13
He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

Psalms 38:2
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.