Lamentations 3:13

Douay-Rheims Bible

He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He pierced my kidneyswith shafts from his quiver.

Hebrew Names Version
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

King James Version
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

English Standard Version
He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;

New American Standard Bible
He made the arrows of His quiver Enter my inward parts.

New Century Version
He shot me in the kidneys with the arrows from his bag.

Amplified Bible
He has caused the arrows of His quiver To enter my inner parts.

World English Bible
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.

Legacy Standard Bible
He made the arrows of His quiverTo enter into my inward parts.

Berean Standard Bible
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

Contemporary English Version
straight through my heart.

Complete Jewish Bible
He has pierced my vital organs with shafts from his quiver.

Darby Translation
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Easy-to-Read Version
He shot me in the stomach with his arrows.

George Lamsa Translation
Behold, he has caused his arrows to enter into my reins.

Good News Translation
He shot his arrows deep into my body.

Lexham English Bible
He shot the arrows of his quiver into my kidneys.

Literal Translation
He caused the sons of His quiver to enter into my inward parts.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The arowes of his quyuer hath he shot, euen in to my reynes.

American Standard Version
He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Bible in Basic English
He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins.

King James Version (1611)
Hee hath caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The arrowes of his quiuer hath he shot, euen into my reynes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

English Revised Version
He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He. He sente in my reynes the douytris of his arowe caas.

Update Bible Version
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Webster's Bible Translation
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

New English Translation

ה (He)

He shot his arrows into my heart.

New King James Version
He has caused the arrows of His quiverTo pierce my loins. [fn]

New Living Translation
He shot his arrows deep into my heart.

New Life Bible
He has taken out His arrows and sent them into my heart.

New Revised Standard
He shot into my vitals the arrows of his quiver;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He hath caused to enter my reins, the sons of his quiver;

Revised Standard Version
He drove into my heart the arrows of his quiver;

Young's Literal Translation
He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.

THE MESSAGE
He shot me in the stomach with arrows from his quiver. Everyone took me for a joke, made me the butt of their mocking ballads. He forced rotten, stinking food down my throat, bloated me with vile drinks.

Contextual Overview

¹ Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation. ² Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light. ³ Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day. ⁴ Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones. ⁵ Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour. ⁶ Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever. ⁷ Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. ⁸ Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer. ⁹ Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down. ¹⁰ Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

arrows: Heb. sons, Deuteronomy 32:23, Job 6:4, Job 41:28

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 35:23 - the archers Job 16:13 - he cleaveth Psalms 7:13 - ordaineth Psalms 64:7 - God Psalms 73:21 - in my Psalms 91:5 - nor Psalms 102:4 - heart Lamentations 2:4 - bent

Cross-References

Genesis 3:4
And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death.

Genesis 3:6
And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.

Genesis 3:9
And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?

Genesis 3:10
And he said: I heard thy voice in paradise; and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.

Genesis 3:12
And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

Genesis 44:15
And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining.

1 Samuel 13:11
And Samuel said to him: What hast thou done? Saul answered: Because I saw that the people slipt from me, and thou wast not come according to the days appointed, and the Philistines were gathered together in Machmas,

2 Samuel 3:24
And Joab went in to the king, and said: What hast thou done? Behold Abner came to thee: Why didst thou send him away, and he is gone and departed?

John 18:35
Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done?

1 Timothy 2:14
And Adam was not seduced; but the woman, being seduced, was in the transgression.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, Deuteronomy 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.

i בני אשפתו "filios pharetrae suae", Montanus, Munster, Cocceius, Michaelis. k L. 1. Ode 22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape.

Lamentations 3:11

The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.”

Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah.

Lamentations 3:12

This new simile arises out of the former one, the idea of a hunter being suggested by that of the bear and lion. When the hunter comes, it is not to save him.

Lamentations 3:14

Metaphor is dropped, and Jeremiah shows the real nature of the arrows which rankled in him so deeply.

Lamentations 3:15

“He hath” filled me to the full with bitterness, i. e. bitter sorrows Job 9:18.

Lamentations 3:16

Broken my teeth with gravel stones - His bread was so filled with grit that in eating it his teeth were broken.

Lamentations 3:17

Prosperity - literally, as in the margin, i. e. I forgot what good was, I lost the very idea of what it meant.

Lamentations 3:18

The prophet reaches the verge of despair. But by struggling against it he reaches at length firm ground.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.