Lamentations 3:4

4 Beth My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.

Lamentations 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.

Lamentations 3:4 In-Context

2 Aleph He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3 Aleph Surely he is turned against me; he turns his hand against me all the day.

4 Beth My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.

5 Beth He has built against me and compassed me with gall and travail.

6 Beth He has set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.