Lamentations 3:16New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— And he hath crushed, with gravel-stones, my teeth, hath made me cower in ashes;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— He has broken my teeth with a stone, he has covered me with ashes.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. |
He hath also broken
1638 {1638} Primeגָּרַסgarac{gaw-ras'}
A primitive root; to crush; also (intransitively and figuratively) to dissolve.
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
my teeth
8127 {8127} Primeשֵׁןshen{shane}
From H8150; a tooth (as sharp); specifically (for H8143) ivory; figuratively a cliff.
with gravel stones,
2687 {2687} Primeחָצָץchatsats{khaw-tsawts'}
From H2686; properly something cutting; hence gravel (as grit); also (like H2671) an arrow.
he hath covered
3728 {3728} Primeכָּפַשׁkaphash{kaw-fash'}
A primitive root; to tread down; figuratively to humiliate.
z8689 <8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2675
me with ashes.
665 {0665} Primeאֵפֶר'epher{ay'-fer}
From an unused root meaning to bestrew; ashes. |
Lamentations 3:16-18
Vau
_ _ gravel — referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the custom of baking in the East (Proverbs 20:17). We fare as hardly as those who eat such bread. The same allusion is in “Covered me with ashes,” namely, as bread. |
Lamentations 3:16
Ashes — Mourners were wont to throw ashes on their heads. |
- broken:
Job 4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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 58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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- gravel:
Proverbs 20:17 Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Matthew 7:9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Luke 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?
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- he hath:
Psalms 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
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- covered me with ashes:
- or, rolled me in the ashes,
Job 2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
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.
Jonah 3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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