Lamentations 3:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 51:8 : 8 Thou causest me to hear joy and gladness, Thou makest joyful bones Thou hast bruised.
  • Isa 38:13 : 13 I have set `Him' till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 A scattered sheep is Israel, lions have driven away, At first, devour him did the king of Asshur, And now, at last, broken his bone Hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned. 4 Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread. 5 From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.
  • Ps 31:9-9 : 9 Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress `is' to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation. 10 For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.
  • Ps 38:2-8 : 2 For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand. 3 Soundness is not in my flesh, Because of Thine indignation, Peace is not in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden -- too heavy for me. 5 Stunk -- become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly. 6 I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning. 7 For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh. 8 I have been feeble and smitten -- unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
  • Job 16:8-9 : 8 And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth. 9 His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.
  • Ps 22:14 : 14 As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:3-5
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    3For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.

    4Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

    5From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.

  • Lam 3:3
    83%

    3Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.

  • Lam 3:5-6
    2 verses
    83%

    5He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

    6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

  • Lam 3:11
    82%

    11My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.

  • Lam 3:16-17
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    81%

    16And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

    17And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.

  • Job 7:5
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    5Clothed hath been my flesh `with' worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.

  • Job 19:20
    79%

    20To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

  • Job 33:21
    79%

    21His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his bones, they were not seen!

  • Job 10:11
    79%

    11Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.

  • Job 30:16-19
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    79%

    16And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.

    17At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

    18By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.

    19Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Ps 31:10
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    10For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

  • Ps 22:14-17
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    78%

    14As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.

    15Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.

    16And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.

    17I count all my bones -- they look expectingly, They look upon me,

  • Job 16:7-9
    3 verses
    78%

    7Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,

    8And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

    9His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

  • Job 16:12-15
    4 verses
    78%

    12At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

    13Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.

    14He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.

    15Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.

  • Job 30:30
    77%

    30My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

  • Lam 3:9
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    9He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

  • Job 31:22
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    22My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

  • Ps 38:3
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    3Soundness is not in my flesh, Because of Thine indignation, Peace is not in my bones because of my sin.

  • Ps 6:2
    77%

    2Favour me, O Jehovah, for I `am' weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,

  • Isa 38:13
    77%

    13I have set `Him' till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

  • Job 33:19
    76%

    19And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the strife of his bones `is' enduring.

  • Mic 3:3
    76%

    3And who have eaten the flesh of My people, And their skin from off them have stript, And their bones they have broken, And they have spread `them' out as in a pot, And as flesh in the midst of a caldron.

  • Job 9:17
    75%

    17Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.

  • Ps 129:3
    75%

    3Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.

  • Ps 32:3
    75%

    3When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

    4And my spirit in me is become feeble, Within me is my heart become desolate.

  • Ps 38:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh.

    8I have been feeble and smitten -- unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.

  • Ps 51:8
    75%

    8Thou causest me to hear joy and gladness, Thou makest joyful bones Thou hast bruised.

  • Ps 102:23
    75%

    23He hath humbled in the way my power, He hath shortened my days.

  • Job 17:6
    75%

    6And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

  • Job 19:26
    74%

    26And after my skin hath compassed this `body', Then from my flesh I see God:

  • Ps 39:10
    74%

    10Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.