Psalms 38:6

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.”

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BSBPD

“I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“I have been bent down, I have been bowed down--unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 38:6 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
  2. Job 30:28I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
  3. Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
  4. Psalms 31:10For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
  5. Psalms 35:14I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
  6. Psalms 42:5Why 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.
  7. Psalms 42:9I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
  8. Psalms 43:2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
  9. Psalms 57:6They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
  10. Psalms 88:9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
  11. Psalms 107:17Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
  12. Psalms 145:14The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
  13. Isaiah 38:14I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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