Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
3Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skinne is blacke vpon me, and my bones are burnt with heate.
Psalms 31:9Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lord: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soule and my bellie are consumed with griefe.
Psalms 38:2For thine arrowes haue light vpon me, and thine hand lyeth vpon me.
Psalms 102:3For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe.
Jeremiah 50:17Israel is like scattered sheepe: the lions haue dispersed them: first the King of Asshur hath deuoured him, and last this Nebuchad-nezzar King, of Babel hath 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 →