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Psalms 38:8

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

KJV

Et nunc quæ est exspectatio mea : nonne Dominus ? et substantia mea apud te est.

Vulgate

καὶ νῦν τίς ἡ ὑπομονή μου; οὐχὶ ὁ κύριος; καὶ ἡ ὑπόστασίς μου παρὰ σοῦ ἐστιν.

LXX

I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

ASV

כִּֽי כְ֭סָלַ/י מָלְא֣וּ נִקְלֶ֑ה וְ/אֵ֥ין מְ֝תֹ֗ם בִּ/בְשָׂרִֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֥ין
'yn
noun · 787×
וֹ
v
noun · 269×
כְּסָלִ֑ים
kslym
noun · 13×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
verb · 4×
מְתֹ֔ם
mtm
noun · 4×
מָלְאָ֥ה
ml'h
verb · 248×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 59:11 — We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
  • Job 3:24 — For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
  • Job 3:24 — For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
  • Job 30:28 — I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
  • Ps 32:3 — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
  • Ps 32:3 — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
  • Rom 7:24 — O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?