Commentary for Lamentations 3:4
בִּלָּ֤ה בְשָׂרִי֙ וְעוֹרִ֔י שִׁבַּ֖ר עַצְמוֹתָֽי׃
My flesh and my skin hath He worn out; He hath broken my bones.
Rashi on Lamentations
He rotted my flesh. As in, “to rotten לְבוּל wood.”2Yeshayahuu 44:19. Another explanation: ‘He has made my flesh and skin waste away,’ as in, “And the earth will wear away תִּבְלֶה like a garment,”3Ibid., 51:6. i.e., both young and old lay outdoors on the ground with neither pillow nor cushion, and their flesh wore out, when they were going into exile.
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