Lamentations 3:16 meaning and explanation
He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
Lamentations 3:16, Berean Standard Bible
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These lines belong to the voice of a man speaking in the first person, traditionally taken as the prophet or a representative of Jerusalem, describing his suffering after the city's fall in 586 BC. Grinding teeth on gravel pictures the grit mixed into bread baked in scarcity or the abuse of a captive, and being trampled in the dust means being brought to the ground and humiliated.
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