Lamentations 3:16 Parallel Translations
NASB: He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: He has ground my teeth with gravel. He has trampled me into the dust.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
ASV: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
BBE: By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
DBY: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
ERV: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
JPS: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.
WBS: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
WEB: He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
YLT: And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3:16 Cross References
XREF:Psalm 3:7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God! For You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek; You have shattered the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 58:6 O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth; Break out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD.

Proverbs 20:17 Bread obtained by falsehood is sweet to a man, But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth And roll in ashes; Mourn as for an only son, A lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer Will come upon us. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
WES: 3:16 Ashes - Mourners were wont to throw ashes on their heads.
MHC: 3:1-20 The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord had become terrible to him. It was an affliction that was misery itself; for sin makes the cup of affliction a bitter cup. The struggle between unbelief and faith is often very severe. But the weakest believer is wrong, if he thinks that his strength and hope are perished from the Lord.
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