7 Bible Verses about Beating Oneself

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

"'See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you.

Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts.

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'

And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.

Cry out and moan, son of man, for it is wielded against my people; against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered up to the sword, along with my people. Therefore, strike your thigh.

For after we turned away from you we repented. After we came to our senses we beat our breasts in sorrow. We are ashamed and humiliated because of the disgraceful things we did previously.'