Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel-stones; He hath covered me with ashes.
Noyes Bible
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 made me drunk with wormwood.
17Yea, thou hast removed my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.
Cross References
Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Psalms 58:6Break their teeth, O God! in their mouths! Break out the great teeth of the lions, O LORD!
Proverbs 20:17The bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
Jonah 3:6For when the matter came to the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, and put off his mantle and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Luke 11:11And what father is there, among you, who, if his son ask for bread, will give him a stone? or if he ask for a fish, will instead of a fish give 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 →