Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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- Prov 20:17 : 17 ¶ Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
- Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
- Ps 58:6 : 6 ¶ Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
- Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
- Job 2:8 : 8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
- Job 4:10 : 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
- Jonah 3:6 : 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
- Matt 7:9 : 9 ‹Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?›
- Luke 11:11 : 11 ‹If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if› [he ask] ‹a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?›
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