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 Living Translation (NLT)He has made my skin and flesh grow old. He has broken my bones.

Context of Lamentations 3:4

2He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. 3Surely He has turned His hand against me Time and time again throughout the day. He has aged my flesh and my skin, And broken my bones. 5He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe. 6He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long 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, And it is a witness against me; My leanness rises up against me And bears witness to my face.
• Psalms 31:9Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; My eye wastes away with grief, Yes, my soul and my body!
• Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long.
• Psalms 38:2For Your arrows pierce me deeply, And Your hand presses me down.
• Psalms 102:3For my days are consumed like smoke, And my bones are burned like a hearth.
• 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 51:8Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice.
• Isaiah 38:13I have considered until morning— Like a lion, So He breaks all my bones; From day until night You make an end of me.
• Jeremiah 50:17“Israel is like scattered sheep; The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken 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

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