Lamentations 3:4
He has made old my flesh and my skin; 1 He has broken my bones. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
3Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day. 1
5He has built against me, and compassed my head, 1 And brought travail upon me. 1
Cross References
Job 30:30And my skin has been greatly blackened, 1 And my bones are burned with heat. 1
Psalms 31:9Be ye not as horse and mule, which have no understanding: 1 But thou must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, 1 Lest they should come nigh to thee. 1
Psalms 38:2I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: 1 I set a guard on my mouth, 1 While the sinner stood in my presence. 1
Psalms 102:3Who forgives all thy transgressions, 1 Who heals all thy diseases; 1
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 →