Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
In Context
15He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.
Cross References
Job 4:10The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;
Psalms 58:6O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
Proverbs 20:17Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Jonah 3:6And the word 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 11:11But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and [the father] shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall 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 →