Psalms 38:8

American Standard Version (1901)

I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
  • Job 30:28 : 28 I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David]. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.

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    2For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.

    3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

    4For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

    5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.

    6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

    7For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.

  • Ps 38:9-10
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    9Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.

    10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • 18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20Behold, 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.

    21They 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.

    22Let 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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  • Ps 38:17-18
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    17For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

    18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

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    14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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    9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

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    2Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

    3My soul also is sore troubled: And thou, O Jehovah, how long?

  • 4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • 19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

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    4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

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    13I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

    14Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

    15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

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    16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

    17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

    18By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

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    16Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; For I am desolate and afflicted.

    17The troubles of my heart are enlarged: Oh bring thou me out of my distresses.

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    27My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.

    28I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

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  • 3Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

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  • 3For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.

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  • 2Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan,