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3:12 Note: Marks a place where we agree with BHQ against BHS in reading L.

3:12 Note: Marks an anomalous form.

3:12 Note: We read punctuation in L differently from BHS.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Η. Ἐνέτεινε τόξον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐστήλωσέ με ὡς σκοπὸν εἰς βέλος.
(Aʸ. Eneteine toxon autou, kai estaʸlōse me hōs skopon eis belos. )

UST It is as though he strung his bow and made me the target
⇔ to shoot at with his arrows.

OEB His bow he bent, and He set me
⇔ As mark for His arrow.

WEBBE He has bent his bow,
⇔ and set me as a mark for the arrow.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET He drew his bow and made me
⇔ the target for his arrow.

LSV He has bent His bow,
And sets me up as a mark for an arrow.

FBV He loaded his bow with an arrow and used me as his target,

T4T It is as though [MET] he bent his bow and caused me to become the target
⇔ at which he shot his arrows.

LEB • as the target for the arrow.

BBE With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

Moff No Moff LAM book available

JPS He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

ASV He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

DRA Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.

YLT He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

Drby He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

RV He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

Wbstr He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

KJB-1769 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
(He hath/has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. )

KJB-1611 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at.
(He hath/has bent his bowe, and made me as it were a mark to shoot at.)

Gnva He hath bent his bow and made me a marke for the arrow.
(He hath/has bent his bow and made me a mark for the arrow. )

Cvdl He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marck to shute at.
(He hath/has bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marck to shute at.)

Wycl Deleth. He bente his bowe, and settide me as a signe to an arowe.
(Deleth. He bente his bowe, and set me as a sign to an arrow.)

Luth Er hat seinen Bogen gespannet und mich dem Pfeil zum Ziel gesteckt.
(He has his Bogen gespannet and me to_him Pfeil for_the Ziel gesteckt.)

ClVg Daleth Tetendit arcum suum, et posuit me quasi signum ad sagittam.
(Daleth Tetendit arcum his_own, and put me as_if signum to sagittam. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

General Information:

God is often spoken of as if he were a warrior.

(Occurrence 0) He bent his bow

(Some words not found in UHB: bent bow,his and,set,me as_the,target for_the,arrow )

A soldier has to bend his bow in order to shoot an arrow from it. The author speaks of God deciding to cause him trouble as if God were a warrior ready to shoot him with an arrow. See how you translated this in Lamentations 2:4. Alternate translation: “It was as if God made his bow ready to shoot”

Parallel LAM 3:12

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