Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
3Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.
5He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
Psalms 31:9Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.
Psalms 38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.
Psalms 102:3For my days are consumed 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 last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath 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 →