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Lamentations 3:16
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He ground my teeth with graveland made me cower in the dust.
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;
He has also made my teeth grind with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
He broke my teeth with gravel and trampled me into the dirt.
He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has [covered me with ashes and] made me cower in the dust.
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
He has broken my teeth with gravel;He has made me cower in the dust.
He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
He made me eat gravel and rubbed me in the dirt.
He has broken my teeth with gravel and pressed me down into ashes.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
He pushed my teeth into rocky ground. He pushed me into the dirt.
He has broken my teeth with a stone, he has covered me with ashes.
He rubbed my face in the ground and broke my teeth on rocks.
He has broken my teeth on grit, he has trampled me down in ash.
And He broke my teeth with gravel; He has covered me in the ashes.
He hath smytten my teth in peces, & rolled me in the dust.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.
He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust.
And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Vau. He brak at noumbre my teeth; he fedde me with aische.
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
ו (Vav)
He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And covered me with ashes.
He has made me chew on gravel. He has rolled me in the dust.
He has broken my teeth with rocks, and has covered me with dust.
He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;
And he hath crushed, with gravel-stones, my teeth, hath made me cower in ashes;
Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.
He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;
And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
He ground my face into the gravel. He pounded me into the mud. I gave up on life altogether. I've forgotten what the good life is like. I said to myself, "This is it. I'm finished. God is a lost cause."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
broken: Job 4:10, Psalms 3:7, Psalms 58:6
gravel: Proverbs 20:17, Matthew 7:9, Luke 11:11
he hath: Psalms 102:9
covered me with ashes: or, rolled me in the ashes, Job 2:8, Jeremiah 6:26, Jonah 3:6
Reciprocal: Isaiah 51:20 - full Nahum 3:6 - I will cast
Cross-References
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.
And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
And the LORD God called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'
And he said: 'I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.'
And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'
And the man said: 'The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.'
Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.'
And unto Adam He said: 'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones,.... With gritty bread, such as is made of corn ground with new millstones, the grit of which mixes with the flour; or with stony bread, as Seneca n calls a benefit troublesome to others; with bread that has little stones mixed with it, by eating of which the teeth are broken, as Jarchi observes: the phrase signifies afflictions and troubles, which are very grievous and disagreeable, like gravel in the mouth, as sin in its effects often proves, Proverbs 20:17;
he hath covered me with ashes; as mourners used to be; the word rendered "covered" is only used in this place. Aben Ezra renders it, "he hath defiled me"; and Jarchi and Ben Melech, from the Misnah, "he hath pressed me", without measure; see Luke 6:38; and so the Targum,
"he hath humbled me:''
but the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, render it, "he hath fed me with ashes"; which version is defended by Castel o and Noldius p, and best agrees with the preceding clause; the sense is the same with Psalms 102:9.
n "Pane lapidoso", Seneca De Beneficiis, l. 7. o Lexic. Polyglott, col. 1791. p Concordant. Ebr. Part. p. 168. No. 763.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 simile arises out of the former one, the idea of a hunter being suggested by that of the bear and lion. When the hunter comes, it is not to save him.
Lamentations 3:14
Metaphor is dropped, and Jeremiah shows the real nature of the arrows which rankled in him so deeply.
Lamentations 3:15
“He hath” filled me to the full with bitterness, i. e. bitter sorrows Job 9:18.
Lamentations 3:16
Broken my teeth with gravel stones - His bread was so filled with grit that in eating it his teeth were broken.
Lamentations 3:17
Prosperity - literally, as in the margin, i. e. I forgot what good was, I lost the very idea of what it meant.
Lamentations 3:18
The prophet reaches the verge of despair. But by struggling against it he reaches at length firm ground.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 16. He 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 endeavouring 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. — הכפישני באפר hichphishani beepher, "he hath plunged me into the dust." To be thrown into a mass or bed of perfect dust, where the eyes are blinded by it, the ears stopped, and the mouth and lungs filled at the very first attempt to respire after having been thrown into it-what a horrible idea of suffocation and drowning! One can scarcely read this without feeling a suppression of breath, or a stricture upon the lungs! Did ever man paint sorrow like this man?
