Lamentations 3:16
And He breaks with gravel my teeth, || He has covered me with ashes.
Literal 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 has filled me with bitter things, || He has filled me [with] wormwood.
17And You cast off my soul from peace, || I have forgotten prosperity.
Cross References
Job 4:10The roaring of a lion, || And the voice of a fierce lion, || And teeth of young lions have been broken.
Psalms 58:6O God, break their teeth in their mouth, || Break down the jaw-teeth of young lions, O YHWH.
Proverbs 20:17The bread of falsehood [is] sweet to a man, || And afterward his mouth is filled [with] gravel.
Jonah 3:6seeing the word comes to the king of Nineveh, and he rises from his throne, and removes his honorable robe from off him, and spreads out sackcloth, and sits on the ashes,
Luke 11:11And of which of you—the father—[if] the son will ask [for] a loaf, will present to him a stone? And [if] a fish, instead of a fish, will present to 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 →