Psalms 38:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
  • Ps 40:12 : 12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
  • Isa 53:11 : 11 ... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself.
  • Lam 1:14 : 14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.
  • Lev 7:18 : 18 And if any of the flesh of the peace-offering is taken as food on the third day, it will not be pleasing to God and will not be put to the account of him who gives it; it will be unclean and a cause of sin to him who takes it as food.

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  • Ps 38:2-3
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    2 For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

    3 My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

  • Ps 40:12
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    12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

  • Ps 38:5-9
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    79%

    5 My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.

    6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

    7 For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

    8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

    9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • Ps 38:17-18
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    17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

    18 I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    77%

    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Isa 38:17
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    17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

  • Ps 25:18
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    18 Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

  • Ps 51:3-4
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    3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.

    4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

    21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • Isa 59:12
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    12 For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:

  • Ps 65:3
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    3 Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

  • Ps 32:3-5
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    3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

    4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

    5 I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

  • Job 14:17
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    17 My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.

  • Ps 143:4
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    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Ps 55:4
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    4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • Ps 88:3-4
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    3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

    4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

  • Ps 51:9
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    9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

  • Job 7:20
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    20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

  • Job 6:3
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    3 For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

  • Ps 69:5
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    5 O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you.

  • Ps 41:4
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    4 I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.

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    14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

  • Ps 39:10
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    10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Job 13:26
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    26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

  • Job 13:23
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    23 What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.

  • Ps 22:14
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    14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

  • Ps 102:5
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    5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • Jer 10:19
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    19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

  • Ps 88:16
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    16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

  • Job 9:28
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    28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

  • Isa 38:15
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    15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

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    54 Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.

  • Lam 3:17
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    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Job 30:17-18
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    17 The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

    18 With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.