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The Body's Burden
Commentators agree that the phrases 'made old' and 'broken bones' are powerful metaphors. They don't describe literal aging or injury but the all-encompassing physical toll of deep sorrow and spiritual anguish. As scholars like Calvin and Spurgeon note, intense grief can waste away a person's strength and vitality, making them feel and look prematurely aged, affecting their whole being.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 3:4
18th Century
Theologian
Made old - Or, wasted: his strength slowly wasted as he pined away in sorrow.
He hath broken my bones - This…
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 3:4
19th Century
Bishop
Hath he made old. —Better, He has wasted, the verb describing the wear and tear of life rather than the effects of age. “…
Charles Spurgeon
On Lamentations 3:4
19th Century
Preacher
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
As people through excessive grief sometimes appear to grow prematur…
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John Calvin
On Lamentations 3:4
16th Century
Theologian
These, as is evident, are metaphorical words. Illness often makes people look old, for leanness proceeds from pain; thus, the skin is contracted, a…
John Gill
On Lamentations 3:4
17th Century
Pastor
My flesh and my skin has he made old
His flesh with blows, and his skin with smiting, as the Targum; his flesh was s…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 3:1–20
17th Century
Minister
The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord…