Lamentations 3:16
And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
Young's Literal Translation
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 bitter things, He hath filled me [with] wormwood.
17And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.
Cross References
Job 4:10The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.
Psalms 58:6O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
Proverbs 20:17Sweet to a man [is] the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled [with] gravel.
Jonah 3:6seeing the word doth come unto the king of Nineveh, and he riseth from his throne, and removeth his honourable robe from off him, and spreadeth out sackcloth, and sitteth on the ashes,
Luke 11:11'And of which of you — the father — if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?
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 →