“Here secondly the affliction of penalty says: "He drove into my heart." Namely, by which the luxury of a people is indicated. Then: "the arrows of his quiver." That is, difference of penalties issuing forth from his governance. As Job 30:11 states: "Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off res…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
— Lamentations 3:13 —
14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.