He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
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He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
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He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins.
Cross-references (3)
Passages linked to Lamentations 3:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
- Deuteronomy 32:23 “I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
- Job 41:28 The arrow can’t make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain He goes on with the same metaphor; he said…
He goes on with the same metaphor; he said in the last verse that God had leveled his bow; he now adds, that his arrows had penetrated into his reins, that is, into his inward parts. But we must bear in mind what the Prophet meant, that God had dealt so severely with the people, that no part, even the innermost, was sound or untouched, for his arrows had perforated their very reins. He afterwards adds, —
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, sons.
Hebrew, sons.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lam 3:13 He hath caused the arrows of his…
Lam 3:13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Ver. 13. He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.] {a} Heb., The sons of his quiver, by a Hebraism. So Horace hath -
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“ Pharetram gravidam sagittis. ” - Lib, ii. od. 21.
“Full quiver of arrows.”
Job hath many like complaints. {Job 7:20; Job 8:4; Job 16:12-13}
{a} Renes sunt sedes libidinis.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain That is, he hath made his judgments to pierce…
That is, he hath made his judgments to pierce the most inward parts of the nation; or, he hath mortally wounded me. In the Hebrew it is,
the daughters of his quiver, a way of speaking very usual in Hebrew, to express any thing that comes from another as the effect either of a natural or moral cause; so sparks are called the sons of the quick coal, Job 5:7, and corn the son of the floor, &c.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He hath caused the arrows of his quiver,.... Or,…
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver,.... Or, "the sons of his quiver" (i); an usual Hebraism; the quiver is compared, as Aben Ezra observes, to a pregnant woman; and Horace has a like expression, "venenatis gravidam sagittis pharetram" (k); the judgments of God are often signified by this metaphor, even his four sore ones, sword, famine, pestilence, and noisome beast, Deu 32:23; these, says the prophet, he caused
to enter into my reins; that is, into the midst of his land and people, or into the city of Jerusalem; or these affected his mind and heart as if so many arrows had stuck in him, the poison of which drank up his spirits, Job 6:4.
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(i) "filios pharetrae suae", Montanus, Munster, Cocceius, Michaelis. (k) L. 1. Ode 22.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 13. The arrows of his quiver] בני אשפתו…
Verse 13. The arrows of his quiver] בני אשפתו beney ashpatho, "The sons of his quiver." The issue or effect; the subject, adjunct, or accident, or produce of a thing, is frequently denominated its son or child. So arrows that issue from a quiver are here termed the sons of the quiver.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain arrows--literally, "sons" of His quiver (compare Job 6:4).
arrows--literally, "sons" of His quiver (compare Job 6:4).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 13. Arrows of his quiver — Better, as the…
13. Arrows of his quiver — Better, as the margin, sons “of his quiver.” These are, of course, the ills and misfortunes sent upon him by God.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. shafts] lit. as mg. the more poetical sons.
13. shafts] lit. as mg. the more poetical sons.
reins] See on Jer_12:2.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13) The arrows of his quiver.—Literally, children. The other…
(13) The arrows of his quiver.—Literally, children. The other side of the analogy appears in Psa_127:5.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain This verse seems strangely short it consists of only…
This verse seems strangely short it consists of only four words in the Hebrew, Probably something like "his weapons," or "the weapons of death", (Psa_7:13) has fallen out. Restore them, and the verse becomes a two-membered one, like its companions. To enter into my reins. So Job, (Job_16:12) "He cleaveth my reins asunder." "Reins," equivalent to "inward parts," like "heart," with which it is often combined; e.g. Jer_11:20 Jer_17:10 Jer_20:12.
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