Lamentations 3:16
He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
In Context
15He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke.
17He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:17A man liketh the bread that is gotten with deceipt: but at the last his mouth shalbe filled with grauell.
Jonah 3:6And worde came vnto the king of Niniue: which arose from his throne, and put of his robe, and couered him selfe with sackcloth, & sate downe in asshes.
Luke 11:11If the sonne shall aske breade, of any of you that is a father, wyll he geue him a stone? Or yf he aske fisshe, wyll he for fisshe geue hym 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 →