He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
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Psalms 3:7Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God: For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
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And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
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Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
Even thou, O Jehovah God of hosts, the God of Israel, Arise to visit all the nations: Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. [Selah
Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor.
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Proverbs 20:17Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes;…
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Psalms 58:6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
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Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God: For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
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Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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 destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God: For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone;
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.