Lamentations 3:16 “He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.”

Lamentations 3:16

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

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Cross references

“broken”

Psalm 3:7 Psalm 58:6 Job 4:10

Psalm 3:7 · BSB

Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 58:6 · BSB

O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.

Job 4:10 · BSB

The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

“gravel”

Proverbs 20:17 Matthew 7:9 Luke 11:11

Proverbs 20:17 · BSB

Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.

Matthew 7:9 · BSB

Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Luke 11:11 · BSB

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

“he hath”

Psalm 102:9

Psalm 102:9 · BSB

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

“covered me with ashes”

Jeremiah 6:26 Job 2:8 Jonah 3:6

Jeremiah 6:26 · BSB

O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Job 2:8 · BSB

And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

Jonah 3:6 · BSB

When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

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