Lamentations 3:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 51:8 : 8 Grant me the ultimate joy of being forgiven! May the bones you crushed rejoice!
  • Isa 38:13 : 13 I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 “The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace. 4 My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food. 5 Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.
  • Ps 31:9-9 : 9 Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength. 10 For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.
  • Ps 38:2-8 : 2 For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down. 3 My whole body is sick because of your judgment; I am deprived of health because of my sin. 4 For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear. 5 My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins. 6 I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning. 7 For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick. 8 I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.
  • Job 16:8-9 : 8 You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me. 9 His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.
  • Ps 22:14 : 14 My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

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  • Ps 102:3-5
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    3For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

    4My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.

    5Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.

  • Lam 3:3
    83%

    3He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

  • Lam 3:5-6
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    5He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.

    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Lam 3:16-17
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    16ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.

    17I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Job 7:5
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    5My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.

  • Job 19:20
    79%

    20My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.

  • Job 33:21
    79%

    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

  • Job 10:11
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    11You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • Job 30:16-19
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    16Job’s Despondency“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.

    17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

    18With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.

    19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

  • Ps 31:10
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    10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

  • Ps 22:14-17
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    14My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

    15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

    16Yes, wild dogs surround me– a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.

    17I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.

  • Job 16:7-9
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    7Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.

    8You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

    9His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

  • Job 16:12-15
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    78%

    12I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target;

    13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

    14He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

    15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

  • Job 30:30
    77%

    30My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.

  • Lam 3:9
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    9He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.

  • Job 31:22
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    22then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket.

  • Ps 38:3
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    3My whole body is sick because of your judgment; I am deprived of health because of my sin.

  • Ps 6:2
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    2Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am frail! Heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking!

  • Isa 38:13
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    13I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

  • Job 33:19
    76%

    19Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,

  • Mic 3:3
    76%

    3You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.

  • Job 9:17
    75%

    17he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.

  • Ps 129:3
    75%

    3The plowers plowed my back; they made their furrows long.

  • Ps 32:3
    75%

    3When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

    4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

  • Ps 38:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick.

    8I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.

  • Ps 51:8
    75%

    8Grant me the ultimate joy of being forgiven! May the bones you crushed rejoice!

  • Ps 102:23
    75%

    23He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.

  • Job 17:6
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    6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

  • Job 19:26
    74%

    26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,

  • Ps 39:10
    74%

    10Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!