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

2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light. 3He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long. ב (Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones. 5He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship. 6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago. ג (Gimel)

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 seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.
• Psalms 31:9Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.
• Psalms 32:3When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.
• Psalms 38:2For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.
• Psalms 102:3For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.
• Psalms 22:14My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.
• Psalms 51:8Grant me the ultimate joy of being forgiven! May the bones you crushed rejoice!
• Isaiah 38:13I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.
• Jeremiah 50:17“The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their 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

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