THEOSISLamentations 3:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.
וַיַּגְרֵ֤ס בֶּֽחָצָץ֙ שִׁנָּ֔י הִכְפִּישַׁ֖נִי בָּאֵֽפֶר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 20:17The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- Jer 6:26Gird 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.
- Ps 58 (57):6
- Ps 3:7I will not fear thousands of the people surrounding me: arise, O Lord; save me, O my God.
- Job 2:8And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.
- Jonah 3:6And the word came to the king of Ninive: and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
- Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken:
- Ps 102 (101):9