Lamentations 3:4
He made eld my skin, and my flesh; he all-brake my bones. (He made old, or wasted, my skin, and my flesh; he broke all my bones.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
In Context
Cross References
Job 30:30My skin was made black upon me, and my bones dried for heat (or and my bones dried up from the heat).
Psalms 31:9Lord, have thou mercy on me, for I am troubled; mine eye is troubled in ire, my soul and my womb also. (Lord, have thou mercy on me, for I am in trouble; my eyes be tired from so much grief, and my soul, and my womb, also be tired.)
Psalms 38:2For thine arrows be fixed in me; and thou hast made steadfast thine hand on me.
Psalms 102:3For my days have failed as smoke; and my bones have dried up as croutons/as cracklings, either (the) leaving (s) of frying. (For my days have vanished like smoke; and my bones have dried up like croutons.)
Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, lions casted out it; first (the) king (of) Assur ate it, (and) this last, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did away the bones thereof. (Israel is a scattered flock, for the lions cast it out; first, the king of Assyria ate it, and then lastly, this Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, did away its 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 →