28 Bible Verses about Wounds

burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

If a man injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him:

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him.

“If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while no one is looking,

From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing sound in it,
Only bruises, welts and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil.

But God will shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they will be wounded.

Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; and many fell wounded up to the entrance of the gate.

And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’

My wounds grow foul and fester
Because of my folly.

“For thus says the Lord,
‘Your wound is incurable
And your injury is serious.

There is no relief for your breakdown,
Your wound is incurable.
All who hear about you
Will clap their hands over you,
For on whom has not your evil passed continually?

Woe is me, because of my injury!
My wound is incurable.
But I said, “Truly this is a sickness,
And I must bear it.”

Thus says the Lord God to Tyre, “Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs in your midst?

“Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.

‘See now that I, I am He,
And there is no god besides Me;
It is I who put to death and give life.
I have wounded and it is I who heal,
And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

“For He inflicts pain, and gives relief;
He wounds, and His hands also heal.

‘All your lovers have forgotten you,
They do not seek you;
For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,
With the punishment of a cruel one,
Because your iniquity is great
And your sins are numerous.

“For He bruises me with a tempest
And multiplies my wounds without cause.

But put forth Your hand now and touch all that he has; he will surely curse You to Your face.”

However, put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face.”

They say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
As they faint like a wounded man
In the streets of the city,
As their life is poured out
On their mothers’ bosom.

Wounds and disgrace he will find,
And his reproach will not be blotted out.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
Those who linger long over wine,
Those who go to taste mixed wine.

He who quarries stones may be hurt by them, and he who splits logs may be endangered by them.

Like an archer who wounds everyone,
So is he who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by.

Stripes that wound scour away evil,
And strokes reach the innermost parts.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend,
But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.