Lamentations 3:4
New International Version
He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.

New Living Translation
He has made my skin and flesh grow old. He has broken my bones.

English Standard Version
He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;

Berean Standard Bible
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

King James Bible
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

New King James Version
He has aged my flesh and my skin, And broken my bones.

New American Standard Bible
He has consumed my flesh and my skin, He has broken my bones.

NASB 1995
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.

NASB 1977
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.

Legacy Standard Bible
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away; He has broken my bones.

Amplified Bible
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away; He has shattered my bones.

Christian Standard Bible
He has worn away my flesh and skin; he has broken my bones.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

American Standard Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Beth He has worn out my skin and my flesh and he has broken my bones

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones.

Contemporary English Version
God caused my skin and flesh to waste away, and he crushed my bones.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

English Revised Version
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He has made my flesh and my skin waste away. He has broken my bones.

Good News Translation
He has left my flesh open and raw, and has broken my bones.

International Standard Version
He made my flesh and skin prematurely old; he broke my bones.

JPS Tanakh 1917
My flesh and my skin hath He worn out; He hath broken my bones.

Literal Standard Version
He has worn out my flesh and my skin. He has broken my bones.

Majority Standard Bible
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

New American Bible
He has worn away my flesh and my skin, he has broken my bones;

NET Bible
He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.

New Revised Standard Version
He has made my flesh and my skin waste away, and broken my bones;

New Heart English Bible
My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.

Webster's Bible Translation
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

World English Bible
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

Young's Literal Translation
He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.

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Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. 4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones. 5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.…

Cross References
Psalm 31:9
Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

Psalm 31:10
For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

Psalm 38:2
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

Psalm 51:8
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

Psalm 102:3
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

Isaiah 38:13
I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.


Treasury of Scripture

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

my flesh

Job 16:8,9
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face…

Psalm 31:9,10
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly…

Psalm 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

he hath

Psalm 22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 51:8
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Isaiah 38:13
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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Lamentations 3
1. The prophet bewails his own calamities
22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37. He acknowledges God's justice
55. He prays for deliverance
64. And vengeance on his enemies














(4) 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," are grouped together as representing the whole being of the mourner.

Verse 4. - Made old; more literally, worn away, as a garment (comp. Isaiah 50:9; Isaiah 51:6). Broken my bones. So Job complains, "His wrath teareth and persecuteth me" (Job 16:9); and, a still closer parallel, Hezekiah, "As a lion, so will he break all my bones" (Isaiah 38:13). Comp. Psalm 51:8, "The bones which thou hast broken."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He has worn away
בִּלָּ֤ה (bil·lāh)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1086: To fail, to wear out, decay

my flesh
בְשָׂרִי֙ (ḇə·śā·rî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

and skin;
וְעוֹרִ֔י (wə·‘ō·w·rî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5785: Skin, hide, leather

He has shattered
שִׁבַּ֖ר (šib·bar)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7665: To break, break in pieces

my bones.
עַצְמוֹתָֽי׃ (‘aṣ·mō·w·ṯāy)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame


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