Lamentations 3:12

12 DELETH tetendit arcum suum et posuit me quasi signum ad sagittam

Lamentations 3:12 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:12

He hath bent his bow
Which is put for all the instruments, of war; the Chaldeans were archers, and shot their arrows into the city: and set me as a mark for the arrow;
as a target to shoot at; signifying that God dealt with him, or his people, as enemies, the object of his wrath and indignation; and if he directed his arrow against them, it must needs hit them; there was no escaping his vengeance; see ( Job 7:20 ) ( 16:12 ) .

Lamentations 3:12 In-Context

10 DELETH ursus insidians factus est mihi leo in absconditis
11 DELETH semitas meas subvertit et confregit me posuit me desolatam
12 DELETH tetendit arcum suum et posuit me quasi signum ad sagittam
13 HE misit in renibus meis filias faretrae suae
14 HE factus sum in derisu omni populo meo canticum eorum tota die
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