Lamentations 3:4

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Lamentations 3:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.

3 Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.

4 He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 16:8

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

Job 16:9

His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

Psalms 31:9

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

Psalms 31:10

For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

Psalms 32:3

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Psalms 38:2

For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

Psalms 38:3

There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalms 38:4

For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

Psalms 38:5

My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

Psalms 38:6

I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

Psalms 38:7

For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.

Psalms 38:8

I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

Psalms 102:3

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

Psalms 102:4

My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

Psalms 102:5

Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.

Psalms 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

Psalms 51:8

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

Isaiah 38:13

I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”