Psalms 38:13

World English Bible (2000)

But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 39:2 : 2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.
  • Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.
  • 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
  • 2 Sam 16:10-12 : 10 The king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, 'Curse David;' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'" 11 David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him. 12 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today."

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    14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

    15 For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

    16 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

  • Ps 39:9-10
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    9 I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.

    10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

  • Ps 39:1-2
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    1 I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

    2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

  • Isa 42:18-20
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    18 "Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

    19 Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant?

    20 You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.

  • Ps 135:16-17
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    16 They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, but they can't see.

    17 They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • Ps 38:12
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    12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

  • Isa 50:5
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    5 The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.

  • Ezek 33:22
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    22 Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening, before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute.

  • Dan 10:15
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    15 and when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.

  • Prov 31:8
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    8 Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

  • Ps 31:12-13
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    12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

    13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

  • Isa 53:7
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    7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Ps 32:3
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    3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

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    8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

  • Matt 13:13
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    13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

  • Jer 11:19
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    19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  • Job 29:10-11
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    10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

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    14 I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security."

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    3 The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

  • Ezek 3:26
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    26 and I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be mute, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

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    15 "They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have a word to say.

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  • Isa 29:18
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    18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

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    8 "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

  • Prov 5:13
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    4 I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

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    21 "Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.

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    22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

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    16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.