Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Lamentations 3:16-18
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Lamentations3:16-18
16-18. gravel--referring to the grit that often mixes with bread baked in ashes, as is the custom of baking in the East (Pr 20:17). We fare as hardly as those who eat such bread. The same allusion is in "Covered me with ashes," namely, as bread.
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