Lamentations 3:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath coveredc me with ashes. ”

Lamentations 3:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape. Lamentations 3:11 The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has m...
Lamentations 3:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 3. The Third Lament. Here it is the singer that comes chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion, and in Lamentations 3:2 it was Yahweh. EV hardly puts Lam...
Lamentations 3:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Many renderings are given of these words’ there is, however, no over-statement here; for, as it has been often said, the grief of the people under such a mass of evils could not be sufficiently...
Lamentations 3:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones - What a figure to express disgust, pain, and the consequent incapacity...
Lamentations 3:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He hath—broken my teeth— He hath broken my teeth as a gravel-stone. He hath fed me with dust. Houbigant. In this and the preceding verse the prophet aggravates the calamities of his people by suc...
Lamentations 3:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. He hath ... broken my teeth with gravel - referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as...
Lamentations 3:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's Hope in God's Mercy This third poem is the most elaborate in structure and the most sublime in thought of all. The poet speaks not only for himself, but for the nation. The order of thought...
Lamentations 3:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He hath also broken my teeth. — The metaphor of food is continued. The mourner eats bread that is gritty, as if made of sand instead of flour. (Comp. Proverbs 20:17 .) Here, again, we are reminded...
Lamentations 3:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION Lamentations 3:1-21 WHETHER we regard it from a literary, a speculative, or a religious point of view, the third and central elegy cannot fail to strike us as...
Lamentations 3:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement, in language which throbs with pain, he described his own sorrows, r...
Lamentations 3:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all th...
Lamentations 3:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones ,.... With gritty bread, such as is made of corn ground with new millstones, the grit of which mixes with the flour; or with stony bread, as Seneca n...
Lamentations 3:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. Ver. 16. He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones. ] Comminuit scrupis dentes meos - i.e., With gritty brea...
Lamentations 3:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I was a derision to all my people To all the wicked among them, who made themselves merry with the prophet's griefs and the public judgments; and their song all the day Hebrew, נגינתם, their inst...
Lamentations 3:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588. 1 I am the man that hath seen afflicti...
Lamentations 3:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

These are but more metaphorical expressions, signifying the unpleasant difficult condition into which God had brought this people. They were like men that lived upon gritty bread, more fit to break t...
Lamentations 3:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

In His Initial Despair The Prophet Bewails His Own Sad Condition ( Lamentations 3:1-18 ). In this section God is simply spoken of as ‘He', the only mention of His Name being in Lamentations 3:18...
Lamentations 3:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 3:14 . The figure is hardly changed. Perhaps a laughing-stock to all my people, their song all the day, may be regarded as the shaft which went to the quick. Je...
Lamentations 3:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

I am about to read a portion of Holy Scripture which may seem very strange to some of you, but it belongs to a part of the congregation, and I hope it may be the means of giving them comfort. I read...
Lamentations 3:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look better, and read more poetically, if the hemistich...
Lamentations 3:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 3:1-25 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE NATION ; OR PERHAPS BY THE NATION...
Lamentations 3:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Lament over Grievous Sufferings
Lamentations 3:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 6:26 ; Job 2:8 ; Job 4:10 ; Jonah 3:6 ; Luke 11:11 ; Matthew 7:9 ; Proverbs 20:17 ; Psalms 102:9 ; Psalms 3:7 ; Psalms 58:6
Lamentations 3:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ashes — Mourners were wont to throw ashes on their heads.

Lamentations 3:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 3:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 3:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 3:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 3:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 3:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 3:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Lamentations 3:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 3:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 3:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 3:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes