Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
American Standard Version
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 bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
Cross References
Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Psalms 58:6Break their teeth, O God, 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 tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Luke 11:11And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish 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 →