¹⁶ He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

¹⁷ Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

²⁶ 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.

⁶ Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

⁷ 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.

¹¹ 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?

⁹ Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone;

⁶ 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.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

⁸ And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.