Cross references
Lamentations 3:12
He bent His bow
and set me as the target for His arrow.
Lamentations 3:12 has 6 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 38:2 (5 votes) and Job 7:20 (4 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Ruth 1 to Ezekiel 5.
Which verses does Lamentations 3:12 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Psalm 38:25 votes
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
- Job 7:204 votes
If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
- Job 6:43 votes
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Psalm 7:12–133 votes
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
- Lamentations 2:43 votes
He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
- Job 16:12–132 votes
I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target; His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
Which verses point to Lamentations 3:12?
The 10 strongest of 15.