New King James Version
Lamentations 3:16
16He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And 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 Living Translation (NLT)He has made me chew on gravel. He has rolled me in the dust.
Context of Lamentations 3:16
14I have become the ridicule of all my people— Their taunting song all the day. 15He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink wormwood. He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And covered me with ashes. 17You have moved my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity. 18And I said, “My strength and my hope Have perished from the Lord.”
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:16 word by word
וַיַּגְרֵ֤ס בֶּֽחָצָץ֙ שִׁנָּ֔י הִכְפִּישַׁ֖נִי בָּאֵֽפֶר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:16
- Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, The voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Psalms 3:7Arise, O Lord; Save me, O my God! For You have struck all my enemies on the cheekbone; You have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
- Psalms 58:6Break their teeth in their mouth, O God! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
- Proverbs 20:17Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.
- Matthew 7:9Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
- Luke 11:11If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?
- Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
- Job 2:8And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes.
- Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, Dress in sackcloth And roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; For the plunderer will suddenly come upon us.
- Jonah 3:6Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, 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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