Lamentations 3:4
He has caused my skin and my flesh to become old. He has broken my bones.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
3He has punished [IDM] me many times, all day, every day.
5He has surrounded me [DOU] with bitterness and suffering.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin has become dark/black and is peeling off, and I have a fever which causes my body to feel like it is burning.
Psalms 31:9But now, Yahweh, be kind to me again because I am distressed. Because I cry so much, I cannot see well, and I am completely exhausted.
Psalms 38:2Now it is as though you have shot your arrows at me and wounded me; you have struck me and knocked me down.
Psalms 102:3My life is ending, like smoke that disappears [SIM]; I have a high fever which burns my body like a fire burns [SIM].
Jeremiah 50:17“The Israeli people are like [MET] sheep that have been scattered by lions. First the army of the King of Assyria defeated them. Then the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon smashed them.
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 →