Lamentations 3:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:17 : 17 The bread of deceit is sweete to a man: but afterward his mouth shalbe filled with grauel.
  • Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of my people, girde thee with sackecloth, and wallowe thy selfe in the ashes: make lamentation, and bitter mourning as for thine onely sonne: for the destroier shall suddenly come vpon vs.
  • Ps 3:7 : 7 O Lord, arise: helpe me, my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies vpon the cheeke bone: thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
  • Ps 58:6 : 6 Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lorde.
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 Surely I haue eaten asshes as bread, and mingled my drinke with weeping,
  • Job 2:8 : 8 And he tooke a potsharde to scrape him, and he sate downe among the ashes.
  • Job 4:10 : 10 The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, & the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken.
  • Jonah 3:6 : 6 For worde came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he rose from his throne, and he layed his robe from him, and couered him with sackecloth, and sate in ashes.
  • Matt 7:9 : 9 For what man is there among you, which if his sonne aske him bread, woulde giue him a stone?
  • Luke 11:11 : 11 If a sonne shall aske bread of any of you that is a father, will he giue him a stone? Or if hee aske a fish, will he for a fish giue him a serpent?

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