English Standard Version
Lamentations 3:4
4He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He has aged my flesh and my skin, And broken my bones.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He has made my skin and flesh grow old. He has broken my bones.
Context of Lamentations 3:4
2he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; 3surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; 5he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; 6he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:4 word by word
בִּלָּ֤ה בְשָׂרִי֙ וְעוֹרִ֔י שִׁבַּ֖ר עַצְמוֹתָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:4
- Job 16:8And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.
- Psalms 31:9Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.
- Psalms 32:3For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- Psalms 38:2For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
- Psalms 102:3For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
- 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 my breast;
- Psalms 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
- Isaiah 38:13I calmed myself until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.
- Jeremiah 50:17"Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed 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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