Psalms 38:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Readability

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 30:28 : 28 I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Ps 35:14 : 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
Ps 42:9 : 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Ps 43:2 : 2 For thou art the God of my strength; Why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Ps 42:5 : 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And [why] art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him [For] the help of his countenance.
Ps 6:6 : 6 I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Ps 31:10 : 10 For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
Ps 57:6 : 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. {H5542}
Ps 88:9 : 9 Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.
Ps 145:14 : 14 Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, And raiseth up all those that are bowed down.
Isa 38:14 : 14 Like 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 38:7-10
4 verses
83%
7For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
8I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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.
Ps 38:17-18
2 verses
82%
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.
Lam 1:20-21
2 verses
78%
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.
Ps 38:2-5
4 verses
78%
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.
Job 30:27-28
2 verses
78%
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.
Ps 73:14
78%
14For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.
Ps 31:9-10
2 verses
77%
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.
Isa 38:14-15
2 verses
77%
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.
Ps 6:6
76%
6I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Job 16:15-16
2 verses
76%
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.
16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Jer 8:18
76%
18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
Jer 10:19
76%
19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
Ps 109:22
75%
22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
Ps 22:14
75%
14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
Ps 143:4
75%
4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
Job 30:18-19
2 verses
75%
18By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:16
75%
16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Ps 88:3-4
2 verses
75%
3For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.
4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
Ps 6:2-3
2 verses
75%
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?
Ps 35:14
75%
14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
Ps 55:4
75%
4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Ps 32:3
75%
3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
Job 17:7
75%
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Ps 88:15
74%
15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Lam 3:14
74%
14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Lam 1:13
74%
13From 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.
Lam 3:1
74%
1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Job 23:2
74%
2Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Ps 88:9
74%
9Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.
Ps 73:21
74%
21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:
Ps 116:3
73%
3The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Lam 3:20
73%
20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
Ps 69:20
73%
20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
Lam 3:3
73%
3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
Ps 22:6
73%
6But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.