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 DomainASVPD
“I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“I have been bent down, I have been bowed down--unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 38:6 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
- Job 30:28I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
- Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- 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.
- Psalms 35:14I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
- 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.
- 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?”
- 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?
- 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
- Psalms 88:9My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.
- Psalms 107:17Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
- Psalms 145:14The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
- 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.”
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