Lamentations 3:4

4 He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.

Lamentations 3:4 in Other Translations

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

4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;

4 He has made my skin and flesh grow old. He has broken my bones.

4 He turned me into a scarecrow of skin and bones, then broke the bones.

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

4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away. He has broken my bones.

4 He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

4 He has worn my body out. 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 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;

3 indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.

4 He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.

5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

Cross References

• 1. S Job 30:30; Lamentations 4:8
• 2. Psalms 51:8; S Isaiah 38:13; S Jeremiah 50:17