Lamentations 3:4
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
3Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.
5He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 31:9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
Psalms 38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely.
Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a hunted sheep, the lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
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 →