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Psalms 38:4

For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

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ASV

For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

KJV

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּ֣יkiforH3588 →
עֲ֭וֹנֹתַי'A.vo.no.taiiniquities myH5771 →
עָבְר֣וּ'a.ve.Ruthey have passed overH5674 →
רֹאשִׁ֑יro.Shihead myH7218 →
כְּמַשָּׂ֥אke.ma.Sa'like a burdenH4853 →
כָ֝בֵ֗דkha.VedheavyH3515 →
יִכְבְּד֥וּyikh.be.Duthey are [too] heavyH3513 →
מִמֶּֽנִּי׃mi.Me.nifor meH4480 →

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Psalms 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.Psalms 65:3When iniquities prevail against me, You atone for our transgressions.Matthew 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.Lamentations 1:14My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.Matthew 18:24As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.1 Peter 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”Isaiah 53:11After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.Leviticus 7:18If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.Numbers 15:31He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”Isaiah 24:20The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.Numbers 14:34In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.Ezekiel 44:10Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.Psalms 49:5Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?2 Timothy 3:6They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,Leviticus 22:16by allowing the people to eat the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”Zechariah 5:8“This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.Leviticus 5:1“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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