Lamentations 3:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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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 reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
  • Ps 31:9-9 : 9 ¶ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
  • 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 anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
  • Job 16:8-9 : 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy 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 in the midst of my bowels.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:3-5
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    3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

    4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

  • Lam 3:3
    83%

    3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.

  • Lam 3:5-6
    2 verses
    83%

    5He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.

    6He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.

  • Lam 3:11
    82%

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • Lam 3:16-17
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    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 is broken, and become loathsome.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From above 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
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    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 hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

  • Job 30:16-19
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    79%

    16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

    17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

    18By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: 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
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    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Ps 22:14-17
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    14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

    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: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

    17I may tell 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 filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

    9He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

  • Job 16:12-15
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    78%

    12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and 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 defiled my horn in the dust.

  • Job 30:30
    77%

    30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

  • Lam 3:9
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    9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

  • Job 31:22
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    22[Then] let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

  • Ps 38:3
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    3[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.

  • Ps 6:2
    77%

    2Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

  • Isa 38:13
    77%

    13I reckoned till morning, [that], as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Job 33:19
    76%

    19¶ He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]:

  • Mic 3:3
    76%

    3Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they 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 waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    75%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

    4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • Ps 38:7-8
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    7For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh.

    8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared 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%

    23¶ He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

  • Job 17:6
    75%

    6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

  • Job 19:26
    74%

    26And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:

  • Ps 39:10
    74%

    10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.