Revised Webster's Bible
Lamentations 3:4
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath 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.
- 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 hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5He hath besieged me, and surrounded me with gall and travail. 6He hath set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old.
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בִּלָּ֤ה בְשָׂרִי֙ וְעוֹרִ֔י שִׁבַּ֖ר עַצְמוֹתָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:4
- Job 16:8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me : and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
- Psalms 31:9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my body.
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.
- Psalms 38:2For thy arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand falleth heavy upon me.
- Psalms 102:3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- 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 me.
- Psalms 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
- Isaiah 38:13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath 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
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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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