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Psalms 32:3
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When I kept silent, my bones became brittlefrom my groaning all day long.
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
When I kept things to myself, I felt weak deep inside me. I moaned all day long.
When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long.
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
When I helde my tongue, my bones consumed, or when I roared all the day,
When I kept silent about my sin, my bones wasted awayThrough my groaning all day long.
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
Before I confessed my sins, my bones felt limp, and I groaned all day long.
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away because of my groaning all day long;
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
Lord, I prayed to you again and again, but I did not talk about my sins. So I only became weaker and more miserable.
Because I suffered in silence all the day long, my bones waxed old during my deep slumber.
When I did not confess my sins, I was worn out from crying all day long.
When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day.
When I kept silence, then my bones became old, through my howling all day.
For whyle I helde my tonge, my bones consumed awaye thorow my daylie complaynynges.
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
When I kept silence, my bones wore away through my groaning all the day long.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long.
For whyle I helde my tongue: my bones consumed away through my dayly roaring.
Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
For Y was stille, my boonys wexiden elde; while Y criede al dai.
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.
When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long.
When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long.
When I kept quiet about my sin, my bones wasted away from crying all day long.
While I kept silence, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.
When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day;
(31-3) Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.
When I declared not my sin, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.
When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
When I kept it all inside, my bones turned to powder, my words became daylong groans.
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
When: Genesis 3:8-19, 1 Samuel 31:13, 2 Samuel 11:27, 2 Samuel 12:1-12, 2 Samuel 21:12-14, Proverbs 28:13, Isaiah 57:17, Jeremiah 31:18, Jeremiah 31:19, Luke 15:15, Luke 15:16
bones: Psalms 6:2, Psalms 31:9, Psalms 31:10, Psalms 38:3, Psalms 51:8, Psalms 102:3-5, Job 30:17, Job 30:30, Lamentations 1:3, Lamentations 3:4
roaring: Psalms 22:1, Psalms 38:8, Job 3:24, Isaiah 51:20, Isaiah 59:11, Lamentations 3:8, Hosea 7:14
Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:39 - shall pine 2 Samuel 12:13 - I have sinned 1 Kings 8:38 - the plague 1 Chronicles 4:10 - that it may 2 Chronicles 33:13 - he was entreated Job 2:5 - put forth Job 10:1 - I will speak Job 16:16 - face Job 19:20 - bone Job 20:14 - his meat Job 33:21 - His flesh Psalms 6:7 - it waxeth Psalms 22:15 - strength Psalms 35:10 - All Psalms 38:5 - My wounds Psalms 55:2 - I mourn Psalms 102:5 - the voice Psalms 109:24 - my flesh Psalms 116:3 - I found Proverbs 17:22 - a broken Proverbs 18:14 - but Matthew 5:4 - General Luke 15:18 - I have Luke 22:32 - strengthen Acts 9:11 - for Romans 7:24 - wretched 1 Corinthians 11:31 - General James 4:7 - Submit
Cross-References
And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is near the waste land.
And Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red soup, for I am overcome with need for food: for this reason he was named Edom.
When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.
Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:
And while he was going past Peniel, the sun came up. And he went with unequal steps because of his damaged leg.
For this reason the children of Israel, even today, never take that muscle in the hollow of the leg as food, because the hollow of Jacob's leg was touched.
Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.
So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.
Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space enough for a man's foot: because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his heritage.
As he did for the children of Esau living in Seir, when he sent destruction on the Horites before them, and they took their land where they are living to this day:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When I kept silence,.... Was unthoughtful of sin, unconcerned about it, and made no acknowledgment and confession of it to God, being quite senseless and stupid; the Targum adds, "from the words of the law"; which seems to point at sin as the cause of what follows;
my bones waxed old; through my roaring all the day long; not under a sense of sin, but under some severe affliction, and through impatience in it; not considering that sin lay at the bottom, and was the occasion of it; and such was the violence of the disorder, and his uneasiness under it, that his strength was dried up by it, and his bones stuck out as they do in aged persons, whose flesh is wasted away from them; see
Psalms 102:3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
When I kept silence - The psalmist now proceeds to state his condition of mind before he himself found this peace, or before he had this evidence of pardon; the state in which he felt deeply that he was a sinner, yet was unwilling to confess his sin, and attempted to conceal it in his own heart. This he refers to by the expression, “When I kept silence;” that is, before I confessed my sin, or before I made mention of it to God. The condition of mind was evidently this: he had committed sin, but he endeavored to hide it in his own mind; he was unwilling to make confession of it, and to implore pardon. He hoped, probably, that the conviction of sin would die away; or that his trouble would cease of itself; or that time would relieve him; or that employment - occupying himself in the affairs of the world - would soothe the anguish of his spirit, and render it unnecessary for him to make a humiliating confession of his guilt. He thus describes a state of mind which is very common in the case of sinners. They know that they are sinners, but they are unwilling to make confession of their guilt. They attempt to conceal it. They put off, or try to remove far away, the whole subject. They endeavor to divert their minds, and to turn their thoughts from a subject so painful as the idea of guilt - by occupation, or by amusement, or even by plunging into scenes of dissipation. Sometimes, often in fact, they are successful in this; but, sometimes, as in the case of the psalmist, the trouble at the remembrance of sins becomes deeper and deeper, destroying their rest, and wasting their strength, until they make humble confession, and “then” the mind finds rest.
My bones waxed old - My strength failed; my strength was exhausted; it seemed as if the decrepitude of age was coming upon me. The word here used, and rendered “waxed old,” would properly denote “decay,” or the wearing out of the strength by slow decay. All have witnessed the prostrating effect of excessive grief.
Through my roaring - My cries of anguish and distress. See the notes at Psalms 22:1. The meaning here is, that his sorrow was so great as to lead to loud and passionate cries; and this well describes the condition of a mind under deep trouble at the remembrance of sin and the apprehension of the wrath of God.
All the day long - Continually; without intermission.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 32:3. When I kept silence — Before I humbled myself, and confessed my sin, my soul was under the deepest horror. "I roared all the day long;" and felt the hand of God heavy upon my soul.
