Lamentations 3:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

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High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 51:8 : 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Isa 38:13 : 13 I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
Ps 31:9-9 : 9 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body. 10 For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
Ps 38:2-8 : 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness. 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
Job 16:8-9 : 8 And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face. 9 He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Ps 22:14 : 14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 102:3-5
3 verses
83%
3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
Lam 3:3
83%
3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
Lam 3:5-6
2 verses
83%
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Lam 3:11
82%
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
Lam 3:16-17
2 verses
81%
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
Job 7:5
81%
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
Lam 1:13
80%
13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Job 19:20
79%
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 33:21
79%
21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.
Job 10:11
79%
11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.
Job 30:16-19
4 verses
79%
16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
18By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Ps 31:10
79%
10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
Ps 22:14-17
4 verses
78%
14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
17I may count all my bones; They look and stare upon me.
Job 16:7-9
3 verses
78%
7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.
8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.
9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Job 16:12-15
4 verses
78%
12I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.
13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.
Job 30:30
77%
30My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
Lam 3:9
77%
9He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
Job 31:22
77%
22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.
Ps 38:3
77%
3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Ps 6:2
77%
2Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
Isa 38:13
77%
13I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Job 33:19
76%
19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;
Mic 3:3
76%
3who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Job 9:17
75%
17For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Ps 129:3
75%
3The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.
Ps 32:3
75%
3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
Ps 143:3-4
2 verses
75%
3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
Ps 38:7-8
2 verses
75%
7For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
8I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Ps 51:8
75%
8Make me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Ps 102:23
75%
23He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.
Job 17:6
75%
6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
Job 19:26
74%
26And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;
Ps 39:10
74%
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.