Lamentations 3:16 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:16

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

KJV

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ASV

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

WEB

He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.

YLT

And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

DBT

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Jeremiah 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.
Psalms 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
Psalms 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.
Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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) and what I eat is neither pleasant nor nourishing. He has covered me with ashes, as mourners used to be, or (as some read it) he has fed me with ashes. I have eaten ashes like bread, " Ps. cii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

LAM 3:16PSA 3:7 JOB 29:17
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LAM 3:16PSA 3:7 PSA 58:6
LAM 3:16PSA 3:7 JOB 16:10
LAM 3:16PSA 3:7 PSA 59:5
LAM 3:16PSA 3:7 PSA 10:12
LAM 3:16PRO 20:17 LAM 3:15-16
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:16PSA 58:6 PSA 3:7
LAM 3:16PRO 20:17 ECC 11:9

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