Lamentations 3:16

In 11 translations

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.covered…: or, rolled me in the 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.

LSV

And He breaks with gravel my teeth, || He has covered me with ashes.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

GNV

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

JPS

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.

LXXE

And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

וַיַּגְרֵ֤ס בֶּֽחָצָץ֙ שִׁנָּ֔י הִכְפִּישַׁ֖נִי בָּאֵֽפֶר׃

LXX-Br

καὶ ἐξέβαλε ψήφῳ ὀδόντας μου· ἐψώμισέ με σποδὸν,

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 20:17Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
• Jeremiah 6:26O 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.
• Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
• Psalms 58:6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
• Luke 11:11What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
• Jonah 3:6When 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.
• Job 4:10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
• Job 2:8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
• Matthew 7:9Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
• Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

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