Psalms 38:6
4 For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
5 My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
7 For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
8 I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
- KJV
- I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- WEB
- I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
- ASV
- I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
- DARBY
- I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.
- BLB
- I am bent, I am bowed down even to excess; all the day I go about mourning.
- ÅB
- Jeg er krumbøyd, helt nedbøyd;
hele dagen går jeg i sorg. - OTB
- Jeg er lutet og dypt bøyd ned;
Jeg går i sorg hele dagen. - B1930
- Jeg er kroket, aldeles nedbøiet; hele dagen går jeg i sørgeklær.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 30:28
I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
Read in contextPsalms 35:14
I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
Read in contextPsalms 42:9
I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
Read in contextPsalms 31:10
For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
Read in contextPsalms 42:5
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
Read in contextPsalms 145:14
The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
Read in contextPsalms 43:2
For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
Read in contextPsalms 57:6
They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
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