Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
‖He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.
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- ‖Alternative wordingOr, rolled me in the ashes.
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- Proverbs 20:17Rank 1 from verse 16
- Jeremiah 6:26Rank 2 from verse 16
26¶ O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
26¶ *O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallowe thy selfe in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an onely sonne, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come vpon vs.
- Psalms 3:7Rank 3 from verse 16
- Psalms 58:6Rank 4 from verse 16
6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
6For word came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him and couered him with sackcloth, & sate in ashes.
- Luke 11:11Rank 8 from verse 16
- Matthew 7:9Rank 9 from verse 16
- Psalms 102:9Rank 10 from verse 16
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Lamentations 3:16
1. The hard structures in a person's or animal's jaws, chiefly used for biting and chewing. 2. Toothlike points or projections on a tool or instrument. 3. In ‘cast ... in his teeth,’ to reproach or taunt someone to his face.
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Small stones or pebbles.
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1. Pieces or masses of rock. 2. Strikes or kills with stones.
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Had a covering placed or spread over; hidden, concealed, enclosed, overlaid, clothed, sheltered, or occupied over the surface or extent of something.
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Sense 1: The powdery residue left after burning. Sense 2: A sign of mourning, humiliation, or ruin.
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15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
15†Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood.
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
16‖He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.
Selected passage17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
17†And thou hast remoued my soule farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie.