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Lamentations 3:16
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
- New International Version (NIV)He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And covered me with ashes.
Context of Lamentations 3:16
14I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day. 15He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood. He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. 17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity. 18And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:16 word by word
וַיַּגְרֵ֤ס בֶּֽחָצָץ֙ שִׁנָּ֔י הִכְפִּישַׁ֖נִי בָּאֵֽפֶר׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:16
- Job 4:10The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;
- Psalms 3:7Arise, Jehovah; save me, my God! For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheekbone, thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalms 58:6O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
- Proverbs 20:17Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- Matthew 7:9Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask of him a loaf of bread, will give him a stone;
- Luke 11:11But of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and [the father] shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?
- Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
- Job 2:8And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes.
- Jeremiah 6:26Daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make mourning, [as] for an only son — bitter lamentation; for the spoiler cometh suddenly upon us.
- Jonah 3:6And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones - What a figure to express disgust, pain, and the consequent incapacity of taking food for the support of life; a man, instead of bread, being obliged to eat small pebbles till all his teeth are broken to pieces by endeavoring to grind them. One can scarcely read this description without feeling the toothache. The next figure is not less expressive. He hath covered me with ashes - באפר הכפישני hichphishani…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-18Verses 10-18 Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape. Lamentations 3:11 The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.” Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah. Lamentations 3:12 This new…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. 16-1816-18. gravel--referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the custom of baking in the East (Pr 20:17). We fare as hardly as those who eat such bread. The same allusion is in "Covered me with ashes," namely, as bread.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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