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Lamentations 3:16
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14 I have become the aridicule of all my people—
bTheir taunting song all the day. 
15 aHe has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drink wormwood. 
16 He has also broken my teeth awith gravel,
And1 covered me with ashes. 
17 You have moved my soul far from peace;
I have forgotten1 prosperity. 
18 aAnd I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the Lord.” 
19 Remember my affliction and roaming,
aThe wormwood and the1 gall. 
20 My soul still remembers
And1 sinks within me. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Lamentations 3:16-18

gravel—referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the custom of baking in the East (Proverbs 20:17). We fare as hardly as those who eat such bread. The same allusion is in "Covered me with ashes," namely, as bread.


 
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