Psalms 38:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
  • Job 30:28 : 28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 For the music director; according to the tune“Morning Doe;” a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away. 2 My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.

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    2For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down.

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    5My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins.

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    9O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire; my groaning is not hidden from you.

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    18Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!

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