He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
The language portrays suffering that reaches the deepest inward seat of feeling and life. The wounds are pictured as shafts loosed from a divine storehouse driving into the kidneys, the tender inner organs. The affliction is therefore not light or surface pain but a piercing inflicted upon the speaker himself.
The language portrays suffering that reaches the deepest inward seat of feeling and life. The wounds are pictured as shafts loosed from a divine storehouse driving into the kidneys, the tender inner organs. The affliction is therefore not light or surface pain but a piercing inflicted upon the speaker himself.