Thematic Bible

Themes in Lamentations 3:12

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Themes in Lamentations 3:12

Thematic Bible

Arrow » Figurative

Bow » Figurative

Judgments » Should lead to » Humiliation

Arrow » Figurative

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God's sudden terrors are arrayed against me. Verse Concepts

Psalm 57:4

I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among those who want to devour me; men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword. Verse Concepts

Numbers 24:8

God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull; they will devour hostile people and will break their bones and will pierce them through with arrows. Verse Concepts

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them. Verse Concepts

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh -- the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy's leaders!'" Verse Concepts

Psalm 11:2

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

Psalm 21:12

For you make them retreat when you shoot your arrows at them. Verse Concepts

Psalm 38:2

For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down. Verse Concepts

Psalm 45:5

Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king's enemies. Nations fall at your feet. Verse Concepts

Psalm 58:7

Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass! Verse Concepts

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Psalm 91:5

You need not fear the terrors of the night, the arrow that flies by day, Verse Concepts

Psalm 120:4

Here's how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals. Verse Concepts

Psalm 144:6

Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them! Verse Concepts

Proverbs 25:18

Like a club or a sword or a sharp arrow, so is the one who testifies against his neighbor as a false witness. Verse Concepts

Lamentations 3:12-13

He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow. (He) He shot his arrows into my heart.

Ezekiel 5:16

I will shoot against them deadly, destructive arrows of famine, which I will shoot to destroy you. I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. Verse Concepts

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stand still in their courses; the flash of your arrows drives them away, the bright light of your lightning-quick spear. Verse Concepts

Bow » Figurative

Psalm 78:57

They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow. Verse Concepts

Revelation 6:2

So I looked, and here came a white horse! The one who rode it had a bow, and he was given a crown, and as a conqueror he rode out to conquer. Verse Concepts

Genesis 49:24

But his bow will remain steady, and his hands will be skillful; because of the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel, Verse Concepts

Job 16:13

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

Job 29:20

My glory will always be fresh in me, and my bow ever new in my hand.' Verse Concepts

Lamentations 3:12

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

Hosea 1:5

At that time, I will destroy the military power of Israel in the valley of Jezreel." Verse Concepts

Habakkuk 3:9

Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth's surface. Verse Concepts

Judgments » Should lead to » Humiliation

Joshua 7:6

Joshua tore his clothes; he and the leaders of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening and threw dirt on their heads. Verse Concepts

Joel 1:13

Get dressed and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore. Verse Concepts

2 Chronicles 12:6

The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The Lord is just."

Lamentations 3:1-20

(Alef) I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath. He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light. He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long. read more.
(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones. He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship. He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago. (Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains. Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer. He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. (Dalet) To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey. He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate. He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow. (He) He shot his arrows into my heart. I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long. He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness. (Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust. I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is. So I said, "My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord." (Zayin) Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison. I continually think about this, and I am depressed.

Jonah 3:5-6

The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.