Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
He has broken my teeth on grit, he has trampled me down in ash.
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.
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.
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 drenched me [with] wormwood. 16 He has broken my teeth on grit, he has trampled me down in ash. 17 My life has been removed from peace, I have forgotten goodness.
Cross References
Proverbs 20:17
Bread gained by deceit is sweet for the man, but afterward, his mouth will be filled [with] gravel.
Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, gird yourself [with] sackcloth, and roll about in the ashes in mourning, a mourning ceremony [as for] an only child. Make for yourself wailing of bitterness, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
Psalm 3:7
Rise up, O Yahweh; deliver me, O my God; for you strike all my enemies [on the] cheek. [The] teeth of [the] wicked you break.
Psalm 58:6
O God, break their teeth in their mouth. Break off [the] fangs of [the] young lions, O Yahweh.
Job 2:8
{So} he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.
Job 4:10
[The] roar of [the] lion and [the] voice of a lion in its prime, and [the] teeth of [the] young lions are broken.
Psalm 102:9
Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears
Jonah 3:6
And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne and removed his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.
Matthew 7:9
Or what man is [there] among you, [if] his son will ask him [for] bread, will give him a stone?
Luke 11:11
But what father from among you, [if his] son will ask for a fish, instead of a fish will give him a snake?