Lamentations 3:12–13
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Footnotes
- 27 Heb “bent.”
- 28 Heb “and set me as the target.”
- 29 The Hiphil stem of בוֹא (bo’, lit., “cause to come in”) here means “to shoot” arrows.
- 30 Heb “sons of his quiver.” This idiom refers to arrows ( 121 בֵּן 6). The term “son” (בֵּן, ben) is often used idiomatically with a following genitive, e.g., “son of flame” = sparks (Job 5:7), “son of a constellation” = stars (Job 38:22), “son of a bow” = arrows (Job 41:2), “son of a quiver” = arrows (Lam 3:13), “son of threshing-floor” = corn (Isa 21:10).
- 31 Heb “my kidneys.” In Hebrew anthropology, the kidneys are often portrayed as the most sensitive and vital part of man. Poetic texts sometimes portray a person fatally wounded, being shot by the Lord’s arrows in the kidneys (Job 16:13; here in Lam 3:13). The equivalent English idiomatic counterpart is the heart, which is employed in the present translation.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
he bent his bow and set me
as a target for his arrow.
He drove into my kidneys
the arrows of his quiver;
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
He drew his bow
and made me the target for his arrows.
He pierced my heart
with arrows from his quiver.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
He strung his bow
and set me as the target for his arrow.
He pierced my kidneys
with shafts from his quiver.
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NLTNew Living Translation
He has drawn his bow
and made me the target for his arrows.
He shot his arrows
deep into my heart.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
He has bent his bow and set me
as the target for the arrow.
He shot the arrows of his quiver
into my kidneys.
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KJV 1900King James Version
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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