Lamentations 3:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

ה(He) He shot his arrows into my heart.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.
  • Job 41:28 : 28 Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.
  • Deut 32:23 : 23 I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:11-12
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    11 He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

    12 He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.

  • Job 16:12-14
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    84%

    12 I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

    13 his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

    14 He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

  • 2 For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.

  • 13 He has prepared deadly weapons to use against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.

  • 21 Yes, my spirit was bitter, and my insides felt sharp pain.

  • 13 מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.

  • 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

  • 5 Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king’s enemies. Nations fall at your feet.

  • 2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver.

  • 4 Here’s how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.

  • Lam 3:14-16
    3 verses
    74%

    14 I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.

    15 He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.

    16 ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.

  • 7 But God will shoot at them; suddenly they will be wounded by an arrow.

  • 2 For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

  • Lam 3:3-6
    4 verses
    73%

    3 He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

    4 ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.

    5 He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.

    6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

  • Job 20:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24 If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

    25 When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

  • Ps 37:14-15
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    14 Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

    15 Their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

  • 23 On it the quiver rattles; the lance and javelin flash.

  • 35 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

  • 28 Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.

  • 23 I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

  • 17 Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

  • 34 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

  • 3 Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

  • 23 till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.

  • 20 ר(Resh) Look, O LORD! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.

  • 14 You pierce the heads of his warriors with a spear. They storm forward to scatter us; they shout with joy as if they were plundering the poor with no opposition.

  • 12 For you make them retreat when you aim your arrows at them.

  • 3 The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.

  • 9 He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.

  • 4 ד(Dalet) He prepared his bow like an enemy; his right hand was ready to shoot. Like a foe he killed everyone, even our strong young men; he has poured out his anger like fire on the tent of Daughter Zion.

  • 4 My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me.

  • 3 Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; the archers spotted him and wounded him severely.

  • 3 The battle was thick around Saul; the archers spotted him and wounded him.

  • 27 My heart is in turmoil unceasingly; the days of my affliction confront me.

  • 3 They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge,

  • 14 My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

  • 3 For this reason my stomach churns; cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed by what I hear, horrified by what I see.

  • 13 Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

  • 3 I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.

  • 11 Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.