Psalms 40:12

World English Bible (2000)

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 38:4 : 4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
  • Ps 69:4 : 4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.
  • Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Ps 19:12 : 12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
  • Ps 22:11-19 : 11 Don't be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is none to help. 12 Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. 13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring. 14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet. 17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me. 18 They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing. 19 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.
  • Gen 42:28 : 28 He said to his brothers, "My money is restored! Behold, it is in my sack!" Their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, "What is this that God has done to us?"
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Luke 18:13-14 : 13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
  • Luke 21:26 : 26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
  • Heb 4:15 : 15 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

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  • Ps 38:4
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    4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

  • Ps 40:13
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    13 Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

    14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

    10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 55:3-5
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    3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

    4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

    5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

    4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    76%

    20 See, Yahweh; 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.

    21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

    22 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • Ps 38:10
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    10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

  • Ps 38:17
    75%

    17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

  • Ps 69:2-4
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    2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

    3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

    4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.

  • Ps 40:11
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    11 Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

  • Ps 25:16-19
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    16 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

    17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

    18 Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

    19 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

  • Ps 116:3
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    3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

  • Ps 3:1-2
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    1 Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

    2 Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.

  • Ps 142:3-4
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    3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

    4 Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

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    5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

  • Ps 38:8
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    8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

  • Job 30:15-16
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    15 Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

    16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
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    5 For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

    6 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

  • Ps 18:4-5
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    4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

    5 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

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    3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

  • Ps 9:13
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    13 Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

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    3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

  • Ps 109:22
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    22 for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

  • Ps 38:6
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    6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

  • Ps 31:15
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    15 My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

  • Ps 88:15-16
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    15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

    16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

  • Ps 142:6
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    6 Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.

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    22 As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

  • Ps 22:11
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    11 Don't be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is none to help.

  • Ps 143:7
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    7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

  • Ps 38:2
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    2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.