Psalms 32:3
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
BSB
ASV
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
KJV
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
When I kept silence. When through neglect I failed to confess, or through despair dared not do so, my bones, those solid pillars of my frame, the stronger portions of my bodily constitution, waxed old, began to decay with weakness, for my grief was so intense as to sap my health and destroy my vital energy. What a killing thing is sin! It is a pestilent disease! A fire in the bones! While we smother our sin it rages within, and like a gathering wound swells horribly and torments terribly. Through my roaring all the day long.
When God has pardoned our sins, if he leaves us to ourselves, we shall soon run as far in debt again as ever and plunge ourselves again into the same gulf; and therefore, when we have received the comfort of our remission, we must fly to the grace of God to be preserved from returning to folly again, and having our hearts again hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Note, He that covers his sin shall not prosper; some inward trouble is required in repentance, but there is much worse in impenitency. Concerning the true and only way to peace of conscience. We are here taught to confess our sins, that they may be forgiven, to declare them, that we may be justified.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
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About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
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At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His…
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
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Proverbs 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
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If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
if I have covered my transgressions like Adam by hiding my guilt in my heart,
I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
