Lamentations 3:4
BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
3ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.
5BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin has become blackened over me, and my bones have dried up because of the heat.
Psalms 31:9Do not become like the horse and the mule, which have no understanding. Their jaws are constrained with bit and bridle, so as not to draw near to you.
Psalms 38:2I said, “I will keep to my ways, so that I will not offend with my tongue.” I posted a guard at my mouth, when a sinner took up a position against me.
Psalms 102:3He forgives all your iniquities. He heals all your infirmities.
Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him. And last, this Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has taken away 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 →