Klagelieder 3:4

4 Er hat mir Fleisch und Haut alt gemacht und mein Gebein zerschlagen.

Klagelieder 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.

Klagelieder 3:4 In-Context

2 Er hat mich geführt und lassen gehen in die Finsternis und nicht in Licht.

3 Er hat seine Hand gewendet wider mich und handelt gar anders mit mir für und für.

4 Er hat mir Fleisch und Haut alt gemacht und mein Gebein zerschlagen.

5 Er hat mich verbaut und mich mit Galle und Mühe umgeben.

6 Er hat mich in Finsternis gelegt wie die, so längst tot sind.