Lamentazioni 3:4

4 Egli ha consunta la mia carne e la mia pelle, ha fiaccato le mie 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 m’ha condotto, m’ha fatto camminare nelle tenebre e non nella luce.

3 Sì, contro di me di nuovo volge la sua mano tutto il giorno.

4 Egli ha consunta la mia carne e la mia pelle, ha fiaccato le mie ossa.

5 Ha costituito una cinta contro di me, m’ha circondato d’amarezza e d’affanno.

6 M’ha fatto abitare in luoghi tenebrosi, come quelli che son morti da lungo tempo.