broken: Job 4:10; Psalms 3:7, Psalms 58:6
gravel: Proverbs 20:17; Matthew 7:9; Luke 11:11
he hath: Psalms 102:9
covered me with ashes: or, rolled me in the ashes, Job 2:8; Jeremiah 6:26; Jonah 3:6
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Lamentations 3:16
Lamentations 3:16
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