THEOSISLamentations 3:12Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.
דָּרַ֤ךְ קַשְׁתוֹ֙ וַיַּצִּיבֵ֔נִי כַּמַּטָּרָ֖א לַחֵֽץ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 38 (37):2
- Job 7:20I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?
- Ps 7:12God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day?
- Ps 7:13Except you will be converted, he will brandish his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
- Lam 2:4Daleth. He hath bent his bow as an enemy, he hath fixed his right hand as an adversary: and he hath killed all that was fair to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion, he hath poured out his indignation like fire.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.
- Job 16:12God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
- Job 16:13I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark.