Lamentations 3:16
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
In Context
15He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
17And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.
Cross References
Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Psalms 58:6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Proverbs 20:17Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Jonah 3:6And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Luke 11:11And which father of you, if the son will ask a loaf, will give him a stone, or also if a fish, in place of a fish will give him a serpent?
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →