Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 bitternes, and made me drunken with wormewood.
17Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,
Cross References
Job 4:10The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, and the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken.
Psalms 58:6Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
Proverbs 20:17The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.
Jonah 3:6For worde came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he rose from his throne, and he layed his robe from him, and couered him with sackecloth, and sate in ashes.
Luke 11:11If a sonne shall aske bread of any of you that is a father, will he giue him a stone? or if hee aske a fish, will he for a fish giue 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 →