Lamentations 3:16
14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
- KJV
- He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
- WEB
- He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
- ASV
- He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
- DARBY
- He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
- BLB
- And He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has covered me with ashes.
- ÅB
- Han knuste mine tenner, han gav meg småsten å spise, han trykte meg ned i asken.
- OTB
- Han har knust mine tenner med grus; han har presset meg ned i støvet.
- B1930
- Han knuste mine tenner, han gav mig småsten å ete, han trykte mig ned i asken.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Read in contextJeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Read in contextPsalms 3:7
Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Read in contextPsalms 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Read in contextLuke 11:11
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
Read in contextJob 4:10
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Read in contextMatthew 7:9
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Read in contextJob 2:8
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
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