Lamentazioni 3:4

4 Egli ha fatta invecchiar la mia carne, e la mia pelle; Egli mi ha fiaccate le ossa.

Lamentazioni 3:4 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:4

My flesh and my skin hath he made old
His flesh with blows, and his skin with smiting, as the Targum; his flesh was so emaciated, and his skin so withered and wrinkled, that he looked like an old man; as our Lord, when little more than thirty years of age, what with his sorrows and troubles, looked like one about fifty: he hath broken my bones;
that is, his strength was greatly weakened, which lay in his bones; and he could not stir to help himself, any more than a man whose bones are broken; and was in as much pain and distress as if this had been his case; otherwise it was not literally true, either of the Jews, or of Jeremiah, or of Christ.

Lamentazioni 3:4 In-Context

2 Egli mi ha condotto, e fatto camminar nelle tenebre, E non nella luce.

3 Certo, egli mi ritorna addosso, E rivolge la sua mano contro a me tuttodì.

4 Egli ha fatta invecchiar la mia carne, e la mia pelle; Egli mi ha fiaccate le ossa.

5 Egli ha fatti degli edificii contro a me, E mi ha intorniato di tosco e di affanno.

6 Egli mi ha fatto dimorare in luoghi tenebrosi, A guisa di quelli che son morti già da lungo tempo.