Lamentations 3:16 · KJV
“He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. {covered...: or, rolled me in the ashes}”
— Lamentations 3:16
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. {bitterness: Heb. bitternesses}
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. {prosperity: Heb. good}
Lamentations 3 — Context
I was a derision to all my people; {and} their song all the day.
15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. {bitterness: Heb. bitternesses}
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. {covered...: or, rolled me in the ashes}
17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. {prosperity: Heb. good}
18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Cross References
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit {is} sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. {deceit: Heb. lying, or, falsehood}
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 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.
Job 4:10
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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?
Job 2:8
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.