Psalms 38:4
For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
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- Ezra 9:6 : 6 and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.
- Ps 40:12 : 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.
- Isa 53:11 : 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.
- Lam 1:14 : 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
- Matt 11:28 : 28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
- 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
- Lev 7:18 : 18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings be eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
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2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.
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5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7 For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.
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13 From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
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17 For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
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9 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
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17 Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
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18 Consider mine affliction and my travail; And forgive all my sins.
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3 For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me.
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20 Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
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12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
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3 Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.
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3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
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17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.
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4 My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
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3 For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
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9 Hide thy face from my sins, And blot out all mine iniquities.
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3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.
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5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my sins are not hid from thee.
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10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
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23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
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19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
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16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
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54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
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17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
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