Psalms 38:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 and I said, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens.
  • Ps 40:12 : 12 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.
  • Isa 53:11 : 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.
  • Lam 1:14 : 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.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • Lev 7:18 : 18 If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him who offers it. It will be an abomination, and the soul who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.

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  • Ps 38:2-3
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    2 For your arrows have pierced me, Your hand presses hard on me.

    3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

  • 12 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.

  • Ps 38:5-9
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    5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.

    6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

    7 For my loins are filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

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

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

  • 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 38:17-18
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    17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

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

  • 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.

  • 17 Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For you have cast all my sins behind your back.

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

  • Ps 51:3-4
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    3 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

    4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be proved right when you speak, And justified when you judge.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    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.

  • 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

  • 3 Sins overwhelmed me, But you atoned for our transgressions.

  • Ps 32:3-5
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    3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

    4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

    5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, And you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

  • 17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

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

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

  • Ps 88:3-4
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    3 For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

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

  • 9 Hide your face from my sins, And blot out all of my iniquities.

  • 20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, So that I am a burden to myself?

  • 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, Therefore have my words been rash.

  • 5 God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.

  • 4 I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

  • 14 If I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

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

  • 26 For you write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

  • 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

  • 14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

  • 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.

  • 19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

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

  • 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

  • 15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

  • 54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

  • 17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Job 30:17-18
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    17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

    18 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.