Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 my soul is removed far off from peace, I forgot prosperity.
Cross References
Job 4:10The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth — yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Psalms 58:6(58-7) Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the cheek-teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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.
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 →