Parallel Verses
Amplified
He has broken my teeth with gravel;
He has [covered me with ashes and] made me cower in the dust.
New American Standard Bible
He has made me cower in the
King James Version
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Holman Bible
ו Vav
and made me cower
International Standard Version
He broke my teeth on gravel, covering me with dust.
A Conservative Version
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes.
American Standard Version
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
Bible in Basic English
By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
Darby Translation
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Julia Smith Translation
He will break my teeth with gravel stones, he covered me with ashes.
King James 2000
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He has broken my teeth on grit, he has trampled me down in ash.
Modern King James verseion
He also broke my teeth with gravel; He has covered me in the ashes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Vav} He hath smitten my teeth in pieces, and rolled me in the dust.
NET Bible
(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
New Heart English Bible
He has also broken my teeth with gravel; he has pressed me down in the dust.
The Emphasized Bible
And he hath crushed, with gravel-stones, my teeth, hath made me cower in ashes;
Webster
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
World English Bible
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
Youngs Literal Translation
And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
15
He has filled me with bitterness;
He has made me drunk with wormwood (bitterness).
He has broken my teeth with gravel;
He has [covered me with ashes and] made me cower in the dust.
My soul has been cast far away from peace;
I have forgotten happiness.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:17
Food gained by deceit is sweet to a man,
But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel [just as sin may be sweet at first, but later its consequences bring despair].
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people [says Jeremiah],
Clothe yourself in sackcloth and wallow in ashes;
Mourn [aloud] as for an only son,
A most bitter cry [of sorrow and regret],
For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us [on both prophet and people].
Psalm 3:7
Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God!
For You have struck all my enemies on the cheek;
You have shattered the teeth of the wicked.
Psalm 58:6
O God, break their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.
Job 2:8
And Job took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself, and he sat [down] among the ashes (rubbish heaps).
Job 4:10
“The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion,
And the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears
Jonah 3:6
When word reached the king of Nineveh [of Jonah’s message from God], he rose from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in the dust [in repentance].
Matthew 7:9
Luke 11:11