Lamentations 3:4

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My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to be for a testimony, and my leanness will rise up in me; it will answer against my face.

Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly.

If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.

O Jehovah, thou wilt not reprove me in thy wrath, and thou wilt not correct me in thine anger.

For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.

I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels.

Thou wilt cause me to hear joy and gladness; the bones thou didst break shall rejoice.

I set till the morning, as the lion thus will he break all my bones: from the day even to the night thou wilt finish me.

Israel a scattered sheep; the lions thrust away: first the king of Assur consumed him; and the last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel bound him fast