Lamentations 3:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:17 : 17 Sweet to a man `is' the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled `with' gravel.
  • Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of My people, Gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes, The mourning of an only one make for thee, A lamentation most bitter, For suddenly come doth the spoiler against us.
  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Rise, O Jehovah! save me, my God. Because Thou hast smitten All mine enemies `on' the cheek. The teeth of the wicked Thou hast broken.
  • Ps 58:6 : 6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,
  • Job 2:8 : 8 And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.
  • Job 4:10 : 10 The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.
  • Jonah 3:6 : 6 seeing the word doth come unto the king of Nineveh, and he riseth from his throne, and removeth his honourable robe from off him, and spreadeth out sackcloth, and sitteth on the ashes,
  • Matt 7:9 : 9 `Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him?
  • Luke 11:11 : 11 `And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

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