Lamentations 3:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

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  • Ps 51:8 : 8 Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones you have broken may rejoice.
  • Isa 38:13 : 13 I counted till morning, that as a lion, so will He break all my bones: from day to night You make an end of me.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven them away: first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth. 4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so I forget to eat my bread. 5 Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.
  • Ps 31:9-9 : 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
  • Ps 38:2-8 : 2 For your arrows pierce deeply into me, and your hand presses me hard. 3 There is no health in my flesh because of your anger, nor is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no health in my flesh. 8 I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.
  • Job 16:8-9 : 8 You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face. 9 He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens 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 within me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:3-5
    3 verses
    83%

    3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth.

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

    5Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

  • Lam 3:3
    83%

    3Surely against me He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long.

  • Lam 3:5-6
    2 verses
    83%

    5He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

    6He has set me 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
    2 verses
    81%

    16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes.

    17You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Job 7:5
    81%

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

  • Lam 1:13
    80%

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Job 19:20
    79%

    20My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have 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%

    11You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.

  • Job 30:16-19
    4 verses
    79%

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

    17My bones are pierced in me at night, and my sinews find no rest.

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

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Ps 31:10
    79%

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Ps 22:14-17
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    78%

    14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

    16For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

    17I can count all my bones; they look and stare at me.

  • Job 16:7-9
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    78%

    7But now he has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company.

    8You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

    9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

  • Job 16:12-15
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    78%

    12I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target.

    13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

    14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.

    15I have sewn 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
    77%

    9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • Job 31:22
    77%

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

  • Ps 38:3
    77%

    3There is no health in my flesh because of your anger, nor 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 troubled.

  • Isa 38:13
    77%

    13I counted till morning, that as a lion, so will He break all my bones: from day to night You make an end of me.

  • Job 33:19
    76%

    19He 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; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.

  • Job 9:17
    75%

    17For He crushes me with a storm, and multiplies 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 silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

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

  • Ps 38:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no health in my flesh.

    8I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.

  • Ps 51:8
    75%

    8Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones you have broken may rejoice.

  • Ps 102:23
    75%

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

  • Job 17:6
    75%

    6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

  • Job 19:26
    74%

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

  • Ps 39:10
    74%

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