Lamentations 3:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.”
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BSBPD
“He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:16 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 2:8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
- Job 4:10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalms 58:6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
- Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
- Proverbs 20:17Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
- Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
- Jonah 3:6When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
- Matthew 7:9Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
- Luke 11:11What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
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