Lamentations 3:4

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

2God has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. 3He beat me again and again all day long. He has made my flesh and my skin waste away. He has broken my bones. 5He has attacked me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. 6He has made me live in darkness, like those who died a long time ago.

Lamentations 3:4 word by word

בִּלָּ֤ה בְשָׂרִי֙ וְעוֹרִ֔י שִׁבַּ֖ר עַצְמוֹתָֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• My fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320
• and my skinעוֹר‛ôr · skinH5785
• hath he made oldבָּלָהbâlâh · to become oldH1086
• he hath brokenשָׁבַרshâbar · to breakH7665
• my bonesעֶ֫צֶם‛etsem · boneH6106

Cross-references for Lamentations 3:4

• Job 16:8You have shriveled me up, which itself is a witness ⌞against me⌟. My frail body rises up and testifies against me.
• Psalms 31:9Have pity on me, O Lord, because I am in distress. My eyes, my soul, and my body waste away from grief.
• Psalms 32:3When I kept silent ⌞about my sins⌟, my bones began to weaken because of my groaning all day long.
• Psalms 38:2Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard.
• Psalms 102:3My days disappear like smoke. My bones burn like hot coals.
• Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It has melted within me.
• Psalms 51:8Let me hear ⌞sounds of⌟ joy and gladness. Let the bones that you have broken dance.
• Isaiah 38:13I cried out until morning as if a lion had crushed all my bones. You ended my life in one day.
• Jeremiah 50:17“The people of Israel are like scattered sheep that lions have chased. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria. The last to gnaw at their bones was King Nebuchadnezzar 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

Topics related to Lamentations 3:4

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Despondency

In the dictionaries

• Chain
• Derision
• Grieve
• Imagination
• Offscouring
• Poetry
• Acrostic
• Alphabet
• Bone; Bones
• Lamentations, Book of

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