Lamentations 3:4
My basar and my ohr (skin) hath He made old; 1 He hath broken my atzmot. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
3Surely against me is He turned; 1 He turneth His yad against me kol hayom. 1
5He hath set up siegeworks against me, 1 and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 1
Cross References
Job 30:30My ohr (skin) grows black upon me, 1 and my atzmot are burned with fever. 1
Psalms 31:9And hast not shut me up into the yad of the oyev (enemy); 1 Thou hast set my feet in a merkhav 1 (large place, spacious or broad place). 1
Psalms 38:2Hashem, rebuke me not in Thy wrath; 1 neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure. 1
Psalms 102:3Hide not Thy face from me in the yom tzar (day of distress); 1 incline Thine ear unto me; 1 in the yom when I call, answer me speedily. 1
Jeremiah 50:17Yisroel is a seh pezurah (scattered sheep); the aryot (lions) have driven him away; first Melech Ashur (King of Assyria) hath devoured him; and last this Nevukhadretzar Melech Bavel hath broken his atzmot.
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 →