Lamentations 3:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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
    3 verses
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    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.

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

  • Lam 3:5-6
    2 verses
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    5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

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

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

  • Lam 3:16-17
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    16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

    17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

  • 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

  • 13 From 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 desote and faint all the day.

  • 20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

  • 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

  • 11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

  • Job 30:16-19
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    79%

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

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

    18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

    19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 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 22:14-17
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    78%

    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.

    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

    16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

    17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

  • Job 16:7-9
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    78%

    7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

    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.

  • Job 16:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    12 I 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.

    13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

    14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

    15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

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

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

  • 22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 3 Who 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.

  • 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

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

  • 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    75%

    3 For 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.

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

  • Ps 38:7-8
    2 verses
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    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.

  • 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

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

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

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

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