Lamentations 3:4
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
Psalms 31:9Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
Psalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
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 →