American Standard Version
Lamentations 3:4
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 3:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
- New International Version (NIV)He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has aged my flesh and my skin, And broken my bones.
Context of Lamentations 3:4
2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. 3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day. My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:4 word by word
בִּלָּ֤ה בְשָׂרִי֙ וְעוֹרִ֔י שִׁבַּ֖ר עַצְמוֹתָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:4
- Job 16:8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.
- Psalms 31:9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea, my soul and my body.
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
- Psalms 38:2For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
- Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
- Psalms 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
- Isaiah 38:13I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Made old - Or, wasted: his strength slowly wasted as he pined away in sorrow. He hath broken my bones - This clause completes the representation of the sufferer‘s physical agonies. Here the idea is that of acute pain.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-24The author speaks of the suffering of Judah and Jerusalem as his own.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. (Job 16:8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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