Berean Standard Bible
Lamentations 3:4
4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered 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 has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. 3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones. 5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
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 16:8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
- Psalms 31:9Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
- Psalms 38:2For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
- Psalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
- Psalms 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
- Isaiah 38:13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
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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