Lamentations 3:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

He made me eat gravel and rubbed me in the earth.

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Then Job sat on the ash heap to show his sorrow. And while he was scraping his sores with a broken piece of pottery,

They may roar and growl like powerful lions. But when God breaks their teeth,

Instead of food, I have ashes to eat and tears to drink,

Come and save me, LORD God! Break my enemies' jaws and shatter their teeth,

My enemies are fierce as lions, LORD God! Shatter their teeth. Snatch out their fangs.

The food you get by cheating may taste delicious, but it turns to gravel.

and attacks without warning. So mourn, my people, as though your only child had died. Wear clothes made of sackcloth and roll in the ash heap.”

When the king of Nineveh heard what was happening, he also dressed in sackcloth; he left the royal palace and sat in dust.

Would any of you give your hungry child a stone, if the child asked for some bread?

Which one of you fathers would give your hungry child a snake if the child asked for a fish?