Psalms 38:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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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 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 38:2-7
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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.
Jer 8:18
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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.
Ps 109:22
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22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.
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.
Ps 22:14-15
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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.
Ps 31:9-10
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78%
9Have 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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Ps 55:4
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4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Ps 6:2-3
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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?
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4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
Jer 4:19
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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.
Ps 73:21
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21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:
Ps 102:4-5
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76%
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.
Ps 32:3
76%
3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
Isa 38:13-15
3 verses
75%
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.
Ps 69:20
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Job 3:24
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24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
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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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4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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16Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; For I am desolate and afflicted.
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Job 30:27-28
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74%
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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Isa 21:3
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Ps 88:3
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Job 16:12
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12I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.
Ps 55:2
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2Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan,