Lamentations 3:4

Amplified Bible

He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away; He has shattered my bones.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He has worn away my flesh and skin;he has broken my bones.

Hebrew Names Version
My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

King James Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

English Standard Version
He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;

New American Standard Bible
He has consumed my flesh and my skin, He has broken my bones.

New Century Version
He wore out my flesh and skin and broke my bones.

World English Bible
My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

Geneva Bible (1587)
My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.

Legacy Standard Bible
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away;He has broken my bones.

Berean Standard Bible
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

Contemporary English Version
God caused my skin and flesh to waste away, and he crushed my bones.

Complete Jewish Bible
He has worn away my skin and flesh, he has broken my bones.

Darby Translation
My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.

Easy-to-Read Version
He wore out my flesh and skin. He broke my bones.

George Lamsa Translation
My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.

Good News Translation
He has left my flesh open and raw, and has broken my bones.

Lexham English Bible
He has worn out my flesh and skin, he has broken my bones.

Literal Translation
He has wasted my flesh and my skin. He has shattered my bones.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My flesh & my skynne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he brussed.

American Standard Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

Bible in Basic English
My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
My flesh and my skin hath He worn out; He hath broken my bones.

King James Version (1611)
My flesh and my skinne hath he made old, he hath broken my bones.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones.

English Revised Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Beth. He made eld my skyn, and my fleisch; he al to-brak my boonys.

Update Bible Version
My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.

Webster's Bible Translation
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

New English Translation

ב (Bet)

He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.

New King James Version
He has aged my flesh and my skin, And broken my bones.

New Living Translation
He has made my skin and flesh grow old. He has broken my bones.

New Life Bible
He has made my flesh and my skin waste away. He has broken my bones.

New Revised Standard
He has made my flesh and my skin waste away, and broken my bones;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He hath worn out my flesh and my skin, hath broken my bones;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

Revised Standard Version
He has made my flesh and my skin waste away, and broken my bones;

Young's Literal Translation
He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.

THE MESSAGE
He turned me into a scarecrow of skin and bones, then broke the bones. He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times. He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin.

Contextual Overview

¹I am [Jeremiah] the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath. ²He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. ³Surely He has turned His hand against me Repeatedly all the day. ⁴He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away; He has shattered my bones.⁵He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. ⁶He has made me live in dark places Like those who have long been dead. ⁷He walled me in so that I cannot get out; He has weighted down my chain. ⁸Even when I cry out and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer. ⁹He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked. ¹⁰He is to me like a bear lying in wait, And like a lion [hiding] in secret places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

My flesh: Job 16:8, Job 16:9, Psalms 31:9, Psalms 31:10, Psalms 32:3, Psalms 38:2-8, Psalms 102:3-5

he hath: Psalms 22:14, Psalms 51:8, Isaiah 38:13, Jeremiah 50:17

Reciprocal: Job 16:12 - broken me Job 19:20 - and I am Job 30:30 - my skin Lamentations 5:10 - skin

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled and deceived me, and I ate [from the forbidden tree]."

Deuteronomy 29:19
"It will happen that when he (a renegade) hears the words of this oath, and he imagines himself as blessed, saying, 'I will have peace and safety even though I walk within the stubbornness of my heart [rejecting God and His law], in order that the watered land dwindles away along with the dry [destroying everything],'

2 Kings 1:4
"Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'You [Ahaziah] will not leave the bed on which you lie, but you will certainly die.'" So Elijah departed.

2 Kings 1:6
They replied, "A man came up to meet us and said to us, 'Go, return to the king who sent you and tell him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed on which you lie, but you will certainly die.'"'"

2 Kings 1:16
Then Elijah said to Ahaziah, "Thus says the LORD: 'Since you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His word?—therefore you will not leave the bed on which you lie, but will certainly die.'"

2 Kings 8:10
And Elisha said to him, "Go, say to him, 'You will certainly recover,' but the LORD has shown me that he will certainly die."

Psalms 10:11
He says to himself, "God has [quite] forgotten; He has hidden His face; He will never see my deed."

2 Corinthians 2:11
to keep Satan from taking advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that, even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted and led away from the simplicity of [your sincere and] pure devotion to Christ.

1 Timothy 2:14
and it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman who was led astray and fell into sin.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My flesh and my skin hath he made old,.... His flesh with blows, and his skin with smiting, as the Targum; his flesh was so emaciated, and his skin so withered and wrinkled, that he looked like an old man; as our Lord, when little more than thirty years of age, what with his sorrows and troubles, looked like one about fifty:

he hath broken my bones; that is, his strength was greatly weakened, which lay in his bones; and he could not stir to help himself, any more than a man whose bones are broken; and was in as much pain and distress as if this had been his case; otherwise it was not literally true, either of the Jews, or of Jeremiah, or of Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Made 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.