Lamentations 3:4
He has worn out my flesh and my skin. He has broken my bones.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
3Surely against me He turns back, || He turns His hand all the day.
5He has built up against me, || And sets around poverty and weariness.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin has been black on me, || And my bone has burned from heat,
Psalms 31:9Favor me, O YHWH, for distress [is] to me, || My eye, my soul, and my body || Have become old by provocation.
Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have come down on me, || And You let down Your hand on me.
Psalms 102:3For my days have been consumed in smoke, || And my bones have burned as a firebrand.
Jeremiah 50:17Israel [is as] a scattered sheep, || Lions have driven [him] away, || At first, the king of Asshur devoured him, || And now, at last, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bone.
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 →