Psalms 38:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 35:15 : 15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:
  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.
  • Ps 77:2-3 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my hand was stretched out in the night and did not rest; 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 by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem him. 4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we considered him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement for our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
  • Mic 4:6-7 : 6 In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble the lame, and I will gather the outcast, and her whom I have afflicted; 7 And I will make the lame a remnant, and the outcast a strong nation, and the LORD shall reign over them in Mount Zion from now on, even forever.
  • Ps 6:6 : 6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.

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    18For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

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    4For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

    5My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.

    6I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.

    7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no health in my flesh.

    8I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.

    9Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you.

    10My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

  • Ps 38:16
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    16For I said, 'Hear me, lest otherwise they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.'

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    18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

  • Isa 38:15
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    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

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    7My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.

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

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