Lamentations 3:12 meaning and explanation

He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

Lamentations 3:12, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is the man of verse 1, a voice representing Jerusalem's suffering after the city fell. He keeps using the image of God as an archer: God bends His bow and sets him up as the target, and the arrows of verse 13 pierce his kidneys.

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