Lamentations 3:16
Good News Translation
He rubbed my face in the ground and broke my teeth on rocks.

New Revised Standard Version
He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;

Contemporary English Version
He made me eat gravel and rubbed me in the dirt.

New American Bible
He has made me eat gravel, trampled me into the dust;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

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Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

broken

Job 4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken:

Psalm 3:7 For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

Psalm 58:6 God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.

gravel

Proverbs 20:17 The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Matthew 7:9 Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone?

Luke 11:11 And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? Or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

he hath

Psalm 102:9 For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

covered me with ashes.

Job 2:8 And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

Jeremiah 6:26 Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

Jonah 3:6 And the men of Ninive believed in God: and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least.

Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
15He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. 16Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.17Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.…
Cross References
Psalm 3:7
For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

Psalm 58:6
God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.

Proverbs 20:17
The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Jeremiah 6:26
Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

Lamentations 3:15
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