The Prophet’s Afflictions

Lamentations 3:12

In 11 translations

BSB: He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
KJV: He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
WEB: He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
ASV: He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
LSV: He has bent His bow, || And sets me up as a mark for an arrow.
YLT: He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.
DBY: He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
DRC: Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
GNV: He hath bent his bow and made me a marke for the arrow.
JPS: He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
LXXE: He. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)

Aleppo Codex and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and Ben Chaim’s Second Rabbinic Bible reads קַשְׁתּוֹ֙; Leningrad Codex reads קַשְׁתוֹ֙ (“bow his”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC: דָּרַ֤ךְ קַשְׁתוֹ֙ וַיַּצִּיבֵ֔נִי כַּמַּטָּרָ֖א לַחֵֽץ׃Marks a place where we agree with BHQ against BHS in reading L.Marks an anomalous form.We read punctuation in L differently from BHS.
LXX-Br: Η. Ἐνέτεινε τόξον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐστήλωσέ με ὡς σκοπὸν εἰς βέλος.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Poetry Alphabet Bow Arrow Despondency Lamentations, Book of Murmuring Poetry, Hebrew Judgments Acrostic

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on 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?
Psalms 7:12–13If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
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.
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 16:12–13I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target; His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).