“Here is viewed the effect of divine blows. It is like a livid spot on a person's body, the effect from a rod inflicting blows. First is the weakening of powers of an entire people. For: "He has made my flesh": by which people eternally existing: and "my skin waste away": in which are delicate bones. Also: "my bones":…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
— Lamentations 3:4 —
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.