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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Lam 3:16
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
Lam 3:16 · Douay-Rheims
“Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.”
On this verse:
“gravel--referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the custom of baking in the East (Pro 20:17). We fare as hardly as those who eat such bread. The same allusion is in "Covered me with ashes," namely, as bread.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.