Verse | Translation | Text |
La 3:16 | Strong Concordance | He hath also broken [01638] my teeth [08127] with gravel stones [02687], he hath covered [03728] me with ashes [0665]. |
King James | He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
gravel--referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the custom of baking in the East (Pro 20:17). We fare as hardly as those who eat such bread. The same allusion is in "Covered me with ashes," namely, as bread. |