Psalms 38:17
15 I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
18 Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
19 Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
- KJV
- For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
- WEB
- For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
- ASV
- For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
- DARBY
- For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.
- BLB
- For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow [is] before me continually.
- ÅB
- For jeg er nær ved å falle,
og smerten min er alltid foran meg. - OTB
- For jeg er på randen av å falle,
Og min sorg er alltid foran meg. - B1930
- For jeg er nær ved å falle, og min smerte er alltid for mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 35:15
But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
Read in contextPsalms 6:6
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Read in contextPsalms 38:6
I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
Read in contextMicah 4:6–7
“On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted.
Read in contextPsalms 77:2–3
In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
Read in contextIsaiah 53:3–5
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Read in context