Lamentations 3:4
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
3Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
5He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 31:9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
Psalms 38:2For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
Jeremiah 50:17“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
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 →