Lamentations 3:4

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He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

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  • Ps 51:8 : 8 Surely you desire truth in the inner being; you teach me wisdom in the hidden place.
  • Isa 38:13 : 13 I have calmed myself until morning; like a lion, He breaks all my bones. Day and night You bring me to an end.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep chased by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to gnaw at his bones was Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress; incline your ear to me; on the day I call, answer me quickly. 4 For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth. 5 My heart is afflicted and withered like grass, for I forget to eat my food.
  • Ps 31:9-9 : 9 You have not handed me over to the enemy, but you have set my feet in a spacious place. 10 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes grow weak with sorrow, as do my soul and my body.
  • Ps 38:2-8 : 2 O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. 3 For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down upon me. 4 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no peace in my bones because of my sin. 5 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too much for me to bear. 6 My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness. 7 I am bent over and deeply bowed down; all day long I go about mourning. 8 For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no health in my body.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
  • Job 16:8-9 : 8 You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me. 9 His anger tears at me, and he hates me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
  • Ps 22:14 : 14 They open their mouths against me, like a lion ripping and roaring.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:3-5
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    3Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress; incline your ear to me; on the day I call, answer me quickly.

    4For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth.

    5My heart is afflicted and withered like grass, for I forget to eat my food.

  • Lam 3:3
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    3Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

  • Lam 3:5-6
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    5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

    6He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Lam 3:11
    82%

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Lam 3:16-17
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    81%

    16He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.

    17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Job 7:5
    81%

    5My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

  • Job 19:20
    79%

    20My bones cling to my skin and my flesh, and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

  • Job 33:21
    79%

    21Their flesh wastes away so that it can no longer be seen, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.

  • Job 10:11
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    11You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • Job 30:16-19
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    79%

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of suffering seize hold of me.

    17At night my bones are pierced within me, and my veins find no rest.

    18With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me like the collar of my tunic.

    19He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

  • Ps 31:10
    79%

    10Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes grow weak with sorrow, as do my soul and my body.

  • Ps 22:14-17
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    14They open their mouths against me, like a lion ripping and roaring.

    15I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts within me.

    16My strength is dried up like a broken piece of pottery, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.

    17Dogs surround me; a band of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

  • Job 16:7-9
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    7Surely now, God has worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

    8You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

    9His anger tears at me, and he hates me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

  • Job 16:12-15
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    78%

    12I was at ease, but he shattered me; he seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target.

    13His archers surround me and pierce my kidneys without mercy; he pours my gall on the ground.

    14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he rushes at me like a warrior.

    15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin and buried my strength in the dust.

  • Job 30:30
    77%

    30My skin grows black and peels off, and my bones burn with fever.

  • Lam 3:9
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    9He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • Job 31:22
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    22then let my shoulder fall from its socket, and let my arm be broken off at the joint.

  • Ps 38:3
    77%

    3For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down upon me.

  • Ps 6:2
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    2LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor discipline me in Your wrath.

  • Isa 38:13
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    13I have calmed myself until morning; like a lion, He breaks all my bones. Day and night You bring me to an end.

  • Job 33:19
    76%

    19A person is also chastened with pain on their bed and continual aching in their bones.

  • Mic 3:3
    76%

    3You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron.

  • Job 9:17
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    17For He crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.

  • Ps 129:3
    75%

    3The plowers plowed upon my back; they made their furrows long.

  • Ps 32:3
    75%

    3When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

    4My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • Ps 38:7-8
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    75%

    7I am bent over and deeply bowed down; all day long I go about mourning.

    8For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no health in my body.

  • Ps 51:8
    75%

    8Surely you desire truth in the inner being; you teach me wisdom in the hidden place.

  • Ps 102:23
    75%

    23when peoples and kingdoms gather together to serve the LORD.

  • Job 17:6
    75%

    6He has made me a byword among the peoples, and I have become one at whom they spit.

  • Job 19:26
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    26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God.

  • Ps 39:10
    74%

    10I am mute; I will not open my mouth because You have done this.