Lamentations 3:13
New International Version
He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

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

New King James Version
He has caused the arrows of His quiver To pierce my loins.

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

NASB 1995
He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.

NASB 1977
He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.

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

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

Christian Standard Bible
He pierced my kidneys with shafts from his quiver.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He Behold, he has brought his arrows into my kidneys

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Contemporary English Version
straight through my heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He has shot the arrows from his quiver into my heart.

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

International Standard Version
He caused his war arrows to pierce my vital organs.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He hath caused the arrows of His quiver To enter into my reins.

Literal Standard Version
He has caused to enter into my reins | The sons of His quiver.

Majority Standard Bible
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

New American Bible
He pierced my kidneys with shafts from his quiver.

NET Bible
He shot his arrows into my heart.

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

New Heart English Bible
He has caused the arrows of his quiver to pierce my inward parts.

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

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

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

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Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow. 13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows. 14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 5:16
Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.

Lamentations 2:4
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.


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He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

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Lamentations 3
1. The prophet bewails his own calamities
22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37. He acknowledges God's justice
55. He prays for deliverance
64. And vengeance on his enemies














(13) The arrows of his quiver.--Literally, children. The other side of the analogy appears in Psalm 127:5.

Verse 13. - This verse seems strangely short - it consists of only four words in the Hebrew, Probably something like "his weapons," or "the weapons of death" (Psalm 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. Jeremiah 11:20; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 20:12.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He pierced
הֵבִיא֙ (hê·ḇî)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

my kidneys
בְּכִלְיוֹתָ֔י (bə·ḵil·yō·w·ṯāy)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3629: A kidney, the mind

with His arrows.
בְּנֵ֖י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son


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