Psalms 38:17

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

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  • Ps 35:15 : 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
  • Ps 77:2-3 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
  • Isa 53:3-5 : 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
  • Mic 4:6-7 : 6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; 7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
  • Ps 6:6 : 6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

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    8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

    9 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

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    20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

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  • 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

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  • 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

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

  • 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

  • 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

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

  • 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorw in my heart.

  • 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

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  • 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

  • 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

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  • 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.