Parallel Verses
King James Version
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
New American Standard Bible
He has made me cower in the
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.
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 hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. 17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:17
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Psalm 3:7
Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Psalm 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
Job 2:8
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
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 mingled my drink with weeping,
Jonah 3:6
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Matthew 7:9
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Luke 11:11
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?