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Psalms 32:3

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

KJV

Cantate ei canticum novum ; bene psallite ei in vociferatione.

Vulgate

ᾄσατε αὐτῷ ᾆσμα καινόν, καλῶς ψάλατε ἐν ἀλαλαγμῷ.

LXX

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

ASV

כִּֽי הֶ֭חֱרַשְׁתִּי בָּל֣וּ עֲצָמָ֑/י בְּ֝/שַׁאֲגָתִ֗/י כָּל הַ/יּֽוֹם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

וֹ
v
verb · 16×
חֹ֣רְשֵׁי
chrshy
verb · 72×
י
y
noun · 126×
י
y
noun · 7×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven. Paul cites this Psalm in Romans 4 to prove that justification is by grace through faith, not works. David describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes not iniquity. His own experience of concealing sin and then confessing it illustrates that there is no rest for the conscience until sin is freely acknowledged and forgiv…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 4:10 — And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may
  • 1Cor 11:31 — For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
  • Hos 7:14 — And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
  • Jas 4:7 — Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
  • Job 16:16 — My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
  • Job 30:30 — My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
  • Lam 3:8 — Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
  • Luke 15:18 — I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
  • Luke 22:32 — But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
  • Matt 5:4 — Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
  • Prov 17:22 — A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
  • Prov 28:13 — He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
  • Prov 28:13 — He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
  • Ps 6:2 — Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
  • Ps 6:2 — Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
  • Ps 22:1 — My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
  • Ps 22:1 — My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
  • Ps 22:15 — My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
  • Ps 31:9 — Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
  • Ps 31:10 — For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
  • Ps 35:10 — All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
  • Ps 38:3 — There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
  • Ps 38:8 — I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
  • Ps 38:8 — I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
  • Ps 51:8 — Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
  • Ps 102:5 — By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
  • Ps 109:24 — My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
  • Ps 116:3 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.