My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; ¹  I have escaped ²  alive ³  with only the skin of my teeth.

When I refused to confess my sin, ¹  my whole body wasted away, ²  while I groaned in pain all day long.

A bright look ¹  brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the body. ² 

For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. ¹  My strength fails me because of ²  my sin, and my bones become brittle. ³ 

My whole body is sick because of your judgment; ¹  I am deprived of health because of my sin. ² 

He made cursing a way of life, ¹  so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil. ² 

I cry out ¹  until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life. ² 

add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.” ¹ 

He made me walk all around among them. ¹  I realized ²  there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.

By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, ¹  mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel ²  and gave instructions about his burial. ³ 

God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull; they will devour hostile people ¹  and will break their bones and will pierce them through with arrows.

“The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. ¹  Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones. ² 

ח (Khet) Now their appearance ¹  is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, like tree bark.

The hand ¹  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and placed ²  me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

So I prophesied as I was commanded. There was a sound when I prophesied – I heard ¹  a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

You ¹  devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot ²  – like meat in a kettle.

“Woe to you, experts in the law ¹  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean. ² 

I am so starved my knees shake; ¹  I have turned into skin and bones. ² 

My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, ¹  as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” ²