7 Bible Verses about Beating Oneself

But I discipline my body and subjugate [it], lest somehow [after] preaching to others, myself should become disqualified.

And look! I strike my hand for your ill-gotten gain that you [have] made and at your blood that was in the midst of you.

{Her goddess is taken out and taken into exile}; her maidservants moan like doves; they beat on their breasts.

But the tax collector, standing far away, did not want even to raise his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

And all the crowds that had come together for this spectacle, [when they] saw the things that had happened, returned [home] beating [their] breasts.

Cry and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all of the princes of Israel. They are thrown to [the] sword with my people; therefore {strike your thigh}.

For after my turning back I repented, and after coming to understand I struck [my] thigh. I was ashamed and also humiliated, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'