Psalms 38:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:5 : 5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
  • Ps 6:6 : 6 The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.
  • Ps 10:17 : 17 Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
  • Ps 102:20 : 20 Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;
  • John 1:48 : 48 Nathanael said to him, Where did you get knowledge of me? In answer Jesus said, Before Philip was talking with you, while you were still under the fig-tree, I saw you.
  • Rom 8:22-23 : 22 For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now. 23 And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.
  • Rom 8:26-27 : 26 And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say; 27 And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.
  • 2 Cor 5:2 : 2 For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:

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