Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 7:20 : 20 I haue sinned, what shal I do vnto thee? O thou preseruer of me, why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden vnto my selfe?
- Ps 38:2 : 2 For thine arrowes haue light vpon me, and thine hand lyeth vpon me.
- Lam 2:4 : 4 He hath bent his bowe like an enemie: his right hand was stretched vp as an aduersarie, and slewe al that was pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he powred out his wrath like fire.
- Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.
- Ps 7:12-13 : 12 Except he turne, he hath whet his sword: he hath bent his bowe and made it readie. 13 Hee hath also prepared him deadly weapons: hee will ordeine his arrowes for them that persecute me.
- Job 16:12-13 : 12 I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe. 13 His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, & powreth my gall vpon the ground.
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- Lam 3:13-164 verses88%
13 Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.
14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
15 He hath filled me with bitternes, & made me drunken with wormewood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
- Lam 3:9-113 verses84%
9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.
10 He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.
11 He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
- Job 16:11-144 verses82%
11 God hath deliuered me to the vniust, and hath made mee to turne out of the way by the hands of the wicked.
12 I was in welth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, and beaten me, and set me as a marke for himselfe.
13 His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, & powreth my gall vpon the ground.
14 He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.
- Ps 7:12-132 verses79%
12 Except he turne, he hath whet his sword: he hath bent his bowe and made it readie.
13 Hee hath also prepared him deadly weapons: hee will ordeine his arrowes for them that persecute me.
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2 For thine arrowes haue light vpon me, and thine hand lyeth vpon me.
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2 For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.
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2 And hee hath made my mouth like a sharpe sworde: vnder the shadowe of his hande hath he hid mee, and made me a chosen shafte, and hid me in his quiuer,
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4 For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.
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13 From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.
- Lam 3:2-76 verses76%
2 He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.
3 Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4 My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.
5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.
6 He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.
7 He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.
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11 And he hath kindled his wrath against me, and counteth mee as one of his enemies.
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4 He hath bent his bowe like an enemie: his right hand was stretched vp as an aduersarie, and slewe al that was pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he powred out his wrath like fire.
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7 But God will shoote an arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at once.
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12 Therefore shalt thou put them aparte, and the strings of thy bowe shalt thou make readie against their faces.
- Job 33:10-112 verses75%
10 Lo, he hath found occasions against me, and counted me for his enemie.
11 He hath put my feete in the stockes, and looketh narrowly vnto all my paths.
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35 He teacheth mine handes to fight, so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes.
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6 They haue layd a net for my steps: my soule is pressed downe: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the mids of it. Selah.
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28 (41:19) The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him:
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14 The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.
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23 I will spend plagues vpon them: I will bestowe mine arrowes vpon them.
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20 And I will shoote three arrowes on the side thereof, as though I shot at a marke.
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4 It is as the sharpe arrowes of a mightie man, and as the coales of iuniper.
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34 He teacheth mine hands to fight: so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes.
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5 Thine arrowes are sharpe to pearce the heart of the Kings enemies: therefore the people shall fall vnder thee.
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3 For the enemie hath persecuted my soule: he hath smitten my life downe to the earth: he hath layde me in the darkenes, as they that haue bene dead long agoe:
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3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.
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3 But thou, Lord, knowest me: thou hast seene me, and tried mine heart towarde thee: pull them out like sheepe for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
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5 The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me. Selah.
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11 Because that God hath loosed my corde and humbled mee, they haue loosed the bridle before me.
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24 He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through.
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7 Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
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3 And I will smite thy bowe out of thy left hand, and I will cause thine arrowes to fall out of thy right hand.
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16 For dogges haue compassed me, and the assemblie of the wicked haue inclosed me: they perced mine hands and my feete.
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9 Hee hath spoyled mee of mine honour, and taken the crowne away from mine head.
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23 And the archers grieued him, and shotte against him and hated him.