Lamentations 3:16
He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
In Context
15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
Cross References
Job 4:10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Psalms 58:6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
Proverbs 20:17Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
Jonah 3:6When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Luke 11:11What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
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 →