Lamentations 3:4

Made old — All my beauty is gone, and all my strength.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Made old - Or, wasted: his strength slowly wasted as he pined away in sorrow. He hath broken my bones - This clause completes the representat...
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 La...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

These, as it evidently appears, are metaphorical words. Illness often makes people to look old, for from pain proceeds leanness: thus the skin...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. My flesh and my skin hath he made old - ( Job 16:8 , "Thou hast filled me wit...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Gall ] bitterest sorrow ( Jeremiah 8:14 ). Travel] RV 'travail,' which is the more modern spelling, in the sense here intended, of painful labour...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hath he made old. — Better, He hath wasted, the verb describing the wear and tear of life rather than the effects of age. “Flesh,” “skin,” “bones...
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 th...
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...
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 i...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. Ver. 4. My flesh and my skin hath he made old. ] Withered it and wanzed it, so t...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Surely against me is he turned The course of his providence toward me is quite altered. He was formerly kind and gracious, but now exercises an aff...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Personal Affliction. B. C. 588....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I was a virgin, young and fair, but I am quite altered, and am now as an old woman whose flesh is decayed, and my skin wrinkled; all my beauty is gon...
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 onl...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (ב) Lamentations 3:4 . Details as to how the writer suffered. My flesh and my skin he has worn out, he has broken my bones....
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 i...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

The first part of this chapter is one of the saddest in the whole Book of God; yet I expect it has ministered as much consolation as some of the brig...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

We are about to read a chapter which is very full of sorrow; while you are listening to it, some of you may be saying, «We are not in that condition....
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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

A Lament over Grievous Sufferings
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

My flesh and my skin hath He made old, so that they were wasting away with sickness and premature old age; He hath broken my bones. Cf Isaiah 38:1...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 38:13 ; Jeremiah 50:17 ; Job 16:8 ; Job 16:9 ; Psalms 102:3-5 ; Psalms 22:14 ; Psalms 31:10 ; Psalms 31:9 ; Psalms 32:3 ; Psalms 38:...

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

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 3:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:4