Lamentations 3:16
in Lamentations 3He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
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ASV
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
KJV
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseHe 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.
This site's exposition
I was a derision to all my people
on Lamentations 3:14-18
Public shame joins private pain, I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day, the sufferer's grief made into other people's entertainment. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood gives the affliction a taste, the same wormwood the Law names as the fruit of turning from the covenant, a word the bench hears chosen deliberately. The unit ends at its lowest point, my strength and my hope is perished from the Lord, hope named as gone in the man's own words, the floor the chapter's turn will rise from.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
it leads to
- Job 29:17
I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 58:6
O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
- Job 16:10
They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
- Psalms 59:5
O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah
- Psalms 10:12
Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
- Job 29:17
Through
Proverbs 20:17Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
it leads to
- Lamentations 3:15–16
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes,…
- Lamentations 3:15–16
Through
Psalms 58:6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
it leads to
- Psalms 3:7
Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalms 3:7
Where this verse is studied
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.