Lamentations 3:4

Israel's Affliction

³ Surely against me He has turned His hand
Repeatedly all the day.
⁴ He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away,
He has broken my bones.
⁵ He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.

My Flesh

Psalm 51:8

Make me to hear joy and gladness,
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

Isaiah 38:13

“I composed my soul until morning.
Like a lion—so He breaks all my bones,
From day until night You make an end of me.

Jeremiah 50:17

“Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was the king of Assyria, and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Psalm 31:9-10

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

Psalm 38:2-8

For Your arrows have sunk deep into me,
And Your hand has pressed down on me.

Psalm 102:3-5

For my days have been consumed in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

Job 16:8-9

“You have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness;
And my leanness rises up against me,
It testifies to my face.

Psalm 22:14

I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint;
My heart is like wax;
It is melted within me.

Psalm 32:3

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.