Tree of Life Version
Lamentations 3:16
16He broke my teeth with gravel. He made me wallow in 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 King James Version (NKJV)He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And covered me with ashes.
Context of Lamentations 3:16
14I have become a laughing stock to all my people, their song all day long. 15He has filled me with bitterness and made me drink wormwood. He broke my teeth with gravel. He made me wallow in ashes. 17My soul has been deprived of shalom, I have forgotten goodness. 18So I said, “My endurance has perished, and my hope from Adonai.”
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 lion may roar and the cub growl, but the teeth of young lions are broken.
- Psalms 3:7I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people all around who have taken their stand against me.
- Psalms 58:6not hearing the voice of charmers, or a cunning spell binder.
- Proverbs 20:17Bread gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is filled with gravel.
- Matthew 7:9“For what man among you, when his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
- Luke 11:11What father, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
- Psalms 102:9My enemies taunt me all day. My deriders use my name to curse.
- Job 2:8He took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.
- Jeremiah 6:26“Daughter of My people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son with bitter lamentation.” “For suddenly the destroyer will come on us!”
- Jonah 3:6When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in the 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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