Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
King James Version
In Context
3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 31:9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
Psalms 38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
Psalms 102:3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon 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 →