Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marck to shute at.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 7:20 : 20 I haue offended, what shal I do vnto ye, O thou preseruer off men? Why hast thou made me to stonde in thy waye, and am so heuy a burden vnto myself?
- Ps 38:2 : 2 For thy arowes stick fast in me, and thy honde presseth me sore.
- Lam 2:4 : 4 He hath bent his bowe like an enemie, he hath fastened his right honde as an aduersary; and euery thinge that was pleasaut to se, he hath smyten it downe. He hath poured out his wrath like a fyre, in to the tabernacle of the doughter Sion.
- Job 6:4 : 4 For the allmighty hath shott at me with his arowes, whose indignacion hath droncke vp my sprete, and ye terrible feares of God fight agaysnt me.
- Ps 7:12-13 : 12 God is a rightuous iudge, & God is euer threateninge. Yf men wil not turne, he hath whet his swearde: he hath bent his bowe & made it ready. 13 He hath prepayred him the weapens of death, & ordened his arowes to destroye.
- Job 16:12-13 : 12 I was somtyme in wealth, but sodenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rente me, and set me, as it were a marck for him to shute at. 13 He hath compased me rounde aboute with his dartes, he hath wounded my loynes, & not spared. My bowels hath he poured vpon the grounde.
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- Lam 3:13-164 verses88%
13 The arowes of his quyuer hath he shot, euen in to my reynes.
14 I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songes vpon me all ye daye loge.
15 He hath fylled me with bytternesse, & geuen me wormwod to drynke.
16 He hath smytten my teth in peces, & rolled me in the dust.
- Lam 3:9-113 verses84%
9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, & made my pathes croked.
10 He layeth waite for me like a Bere, and as a lyon in a hole.
11 He hath marred my wayes, and broke me in peces, he hath layed me waist altogether.
- Job 16:11-144 verses82%
11 God hath geuen me ouer to the vngodly, and delyuered me in to the hondes of ye wicked.
12 I was somtyme in wealth, but sodenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rente me, and set me, as it were a marck for him to shute at.
13 He hath compased me rounde aboute with his dartes, he hath wounded my loynes, & not spared. My bowels hath he poured vpon the grounde.
14 He hath geue me one wounde vpon another, and is falle vpon me like a giaunte.
- Ps 7:12-132 verses79%
12 God is a rightuous iudge, & God is euer threateninge. Yf men wil not turne, he hath whet his swearde: he hath bent his bowe & made it ready.
13 He hath prepayred him the weapens of death, & ordened his arowes to destroye.
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2 For thy arowes stick fast in me, and thy honde presseth me sore.
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2 For lo, the vngodly haue bet their bowe, and made redy their arowes in the quyuer: that they maye priuely shute at them, which are true of herte.
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2 he hath made my mouth like a sharpe swerde, vnder ye shadowe of his honde hath he defended me, and hyd me in his quyuer, as a good arowe,
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4 For the allmighty hath shott at me with his arowes, whose indignacion hath droncke vp my sprete, and ye terrible feares of God fight agaysnt me.
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13 From aboue hath he sent downe a fyre, in to my bones and chastened me: he hath layed a net for my fete, and throwne me wyde open: he hath made me desolate, so that I must euer be mournynge.
- Lam 3:2-76 verses76%
2 He droue me forth, and led me: yee into darcknesse, but not in to light.
3 Agaynst me only he turneth his honde, & layeth it euer vpon me.
4 My flesh & my skynne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he brussed.
5 He hath buylded rounde aboute me, & closed me in with gall and trauayle.
6 He hath set me in darcknesse, as they that be deed for euer.
7 He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, & hath layed heuy lynckes vpon me.
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11 His wrath is kyndled agaynst me, he taketh me, as though I were his enemy.
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4 He hath bent his bowe like an enemie, he hath fastened his right honde as an aduersary; and euery thinge that was pleasaut to se, he hath smyten it downe. He hath poured out his wrath like a fyre, in to the tabernacle of the doughter Sion.
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7 But God shall sodenly shute with an arowe, yt they shall be wounded.
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12 Therfore shalt thou put the to flight, & with thy stringes thou shalt make ready thine arowes agaynst the faces off them.
- Job 33:10-112 verses75%
10 But lo, he hath pyked a quarell agaynst me, & taketh me for his enemy:
11 he hath put my fote in the stockes, & loketh narowly vnto all my pathes.
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35 He teacheth my handes to fighte, and bendeth the stele bowe with myne armes.
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6 Set vp thy self (o God) aboue the heaues, and thy glory aboue all the earth.
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28 He starteth not awaye for him that bendeth the bowe, & as for slynge stones, he careth as moch for stubble as for them
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14 The vngodly drawe out the swerde & bende their bowe, to cast downe ye symple & poore, and to slaye soch as go ye right waye.
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23 I wil heape myscheues vpo them, I wil spende all myne arowes at them.
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20 then wyl I shute thre arowes on yt side, as though I wolde shute at a marck:
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4 Euen mightie & sharpe arowes, wt hote burnige coales.
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34 He teacheth myne hondes to fight, and maketh myne armes to breake euen a bowe off stele.
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5 Good lucke haue thou with thine honoure, ryde on with the treuth, mekenesse & rightuousnes: & thy right hode shal teach ye woderfull thinges.
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3 For the enemie persecuteth my soule, he smyteth my life downe to the grounde, he layeth me in the darcknesse, as the deed men of the worlde.
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3 Which whette their tuges like a swerde, & shute wt their venimous wordes like as wt arowes.
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3 But thou LORDE (to whom I am well knowne) thou that hast sene, & proued my herte, take them awaye, like as a flock is caried to the slaughter house, and apoynte them for the daye off slaughtinge.
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5 The proude haue layed a snare for me, & spred a nett abrode with coardes, yee & sett trappes in my waye.
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11 For ye LORDE hath opened his quyuer, he hath hytt me, & put a brydle in my mouth.
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24 so that yf he fle the yron weapens, he shall be shott with the stele bowe.
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7 That they maye fall awaye, like water yt runneth a pace: and that when they shote their arowes, they maye be broke.
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3 As for thy bowe, I wil smyte it out of thy left honde, and cast thine arowes out of thy right honde.
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16 For dogges are come aboute me, the coucell of ye wicked hath layed sege agaynst me.
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9 He hath spoyled me of myne honoure, & taken the crowne awaye fro my heade.
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23 And though the shoters angered him, stroue with him, and hated him,