Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
He will break my teeth with gravel stones, he covered me with ashes.
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.
Amplified
He has broken my teeth with gravel;
He has [covered me with ashes and] made me cower in the dust.
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.
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 filled me with bitternesses, he gave me wormwood to drink 16 He will break my teeth with gravel stones, he covered me with ashes. 17 Thou wilt cast of my soul from peace: I forgat good.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; and afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make to thee the mourning of an only begotten, a wailing of bitterness; for he laying waste shall suddenly come upon us.
Psalm 3:7
Arise, O Jehovah; save me, my God, for thou didst strike all mine enemies upon the cheek; thou didst break the teeth of the unjust.
Psalm 58:6
God destroyed their teeth in their mouth: Jehovah broke down the young lions' grinders.
Job 2:8
And he will take to him a pot sherd to scrape himself with it, and he will sit in the midst of the ashes.
Job 4:10
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lion, and the teeth of the young lions were broken.
Psalm 102:9
For I ate ashes as bread, and I mingled my drink with weeping.
Jonah 3:6
And the word will reach to the king of Nineveh, and he will rise from his throne, and he will take away his wide cloak from off him, and he will cover with sackcloth, and he will sit upon ashes.
Matthew 7:9
Or what man is of you, which, if his son ask bread, he will not give him a stone?
Luke 11:11
And shall a son ask bread of any of you a father, will he give him a stone ? and if a fish, for a fish he will not give him a serpent.