💧WEB · Lamentations 3:12
What does Lamentations 3:12 mean?
"He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow."
— Lamentations 3:12 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
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