Charles Spurgeon Commentary Lamentations 3:3-4

"Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day. My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones." — Lamentations 3:3-4 (ASV)

Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. My flesh and my skin hath he made old: he hath broken my bones.

Conviction of sin seems to dry up the very sap of our life until we become withered with age. Worse than the agony of a broken bone is the pain of a broken heart. When the Holy Spirit convinces of sin, believe me, it is no child's play; in the case of some of us, it was a severe wounding.