Lamentations 3:4 BSB

Original language & word study

5 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בִּלָּ֤ה	bi.Lah	he has made to waste away	H1086 →
בְשָׂרִי֙	ve.sa.Ri	flesh my	H1320 →
וְעוֹרִ֔י	ve.'o.Ri	and skin my	H5785 →
שִׁבַּ֖ר	shi.Bar	he has broken	H7665 →
עַצְמוֹתָֽי׃	atz.mo.Tai	bones my	H6106 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 51:8
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
leads to
- Matthew 5:4
  Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- Job 5:17–18
  Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- Hosea 6:1–2
  Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
- Psalms 6:2–3
  Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
- Psalms 119:81–82
  My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
Through
Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
leads to
- Jeremiah 2:15
  The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
Through
Isaiah 38:13
I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
leads to
- Daniel 6:24
  At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom…
- Psalms 51:8
  Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Psalms 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.Isaiah 38:13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.Psalms 38:2–8For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”Psalms 31:9–10Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.Job 16:12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;Psalms 102:3–5For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.Job 16:8–9You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.Job 19:20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.Lamentations 5:10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.Psalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

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