Lamentations 3:4 meaning and explanation

He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

Lamentations 3:4, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is the man of verse 1, a witness to Jerusalem's destruction, voicing his grief in the first person. He describes God as the one who has attacked him: the Hebrew verb here pictures God as an adversary who grinds down a body until only bone remains.

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