Lamentations 3:4

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

Cross-reference

Lamentations 5:10 Related theme

In Lamentations 5:10, skin is hot with famine—both verses describe skin suffering, though 5:10 adds the communal famine context.

Psalm 22:14 Parallel

In Psalm 22:14, the psalmist's bones are out of joint—similar physical affliction imagery from one who feels abandoned yet trusts God.

Psalm 31:9 Parallel

Psalm 31:9 also speaks of the eye and body wasting — matching the wasting of flesh and skin here.

Psalm 38:2-8 vividly describes flesh and bones afflicted by God's arrows — a detailed parallel of physical suffering from divine wrath.

Psalm 102:3-5 speaks of bones burning and flesh clinging — similar bodily decay under God's chastening hand.

In Isaiah 38:13, Hezekiah describes God breaking all his bones like a lion—almost identical language of divine affliction during illness.

Job 16:12 Parallel

In Job 16:12, Job says God broke him apart and set him as a target—parallel experience of being shattered by divine action.

Job 19:20 Parallel

In Job 19:20, Job's bones stick to his skin—identical description of wasting flesh and skin, emphasizing physical decay.

Job 30:30 Parallel

In Job 30:30, Job's skin blackens and bones burn—same pairing of skin and bone affliction, intensifying the suffering portrait.

Psalm 51:8 Parallel

In Psalm 51:8, David speaks of bones broken by God as a metaphor for contrition—here the breaking is literal suffering, but both acknowledge divine agency.

Job 16:9 Parallel

Job 16:9 depicts God tearing in wrath — a different but kindred image of violent divine attack on the body.

Psalm 31:10 Parallel

Psalm 31:10 says bones waste away — akin to the breaking of bones here, both from sorrow and sin.

Psalm 32:3 Parallel

Psalm 32:3 describes bones wasting from unconfessed sin — parallel to bone affliction from divine judgment.