Lamentations 3:16
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 20:17 : 17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
- Jer 6:26 : 26 Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.
- Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
- Ps 58:6 : 6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
- Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
- Job 2:8 : 8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
- Job 4:10 : 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
- Jonah 3:6 : 6 The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
- Matt 7:9 : 9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
- Luke 11:11 : 11 "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
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