Lamentations 3:4
Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
3Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.
5Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
Psalms 31:9And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.
Psalms 38:2Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath.
Psalms 102:3Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily.
Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria devoured him: and last this Nabuchodonosor 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 →