Lamentations 3:16
He brake at number my teeth (or He broke my teeth on gravel); he fed me with ashes.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
In Context
15He filled me with bitternesses; he greatly filled me with wormwood.
Cross References
Job 4:10The roaring of a lion, and the voice of a lioness, and the teeth of (the) whelps of lions, be all-broken.
Psalms 58:6God shall all-break the teeth of them in their mouth; the Lord shall break (al)together the great teeth of lions. (O God, break all the teeth in their mouths; O Lord, break all in pieces the great teeth of these lions.)
Proverbs 20:17The bread of a leasing, that is, gotten by a leasing, is sweet to a man, (or Bread gotten by a lie, tasteth sweet to a person); and afterward his mouth shall be filled with reckoning [or but afterward his mouth shall be filled with little pebble stones].
Jonah 3:6And the word came to the king of Nineveh; and he rose off his seat, and casted away his clothing from him, (or and he rose up off his throne, and threw off his clothes), and was clothed with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Luke 11:11Therefore who of you asketh his father (for) bread, whether he shall give [to] him a stone? or if he asketh (for a) fish, whether he shall give [to] him a serpent for the fish? (or shall he give him a snake instead of the fish?)
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 →