King James Version
Lamentations 3:13 in the King James Version says “He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. arrows: Heb. sons” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. arrows: Heb. sons”
Lamentations 3:13 · KJV
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. arrows: Heb. sons
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. bitterness: Heb. bitternesses
KJV Study — Public Domain
“into my reins”
H3629a kidney (as an essential organ); figuratively, the mind (as the interior self)
“He hath caused the arrows”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
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