Psalms 38:9

Bible in Basic English

Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, my every desire is in front of you;my sighing is not hidden from you.

Hebrew Names Version
Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

King James Version
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

English Standard Version
O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.

New Century Version
Lord, you know everything I want; my cries are not hidden from you.

New English Translation
O Lord, you understand my heart's desire; my groaning is not hidden from you.

Amplified Bible
Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.

New American Standard Bible
Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.

World English Bible
Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Lorde, I powre my whole desire before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
Lord, all my desire is before You;And my sighing is not hidden from You.

Berean Standard Bible
O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.

Contemporary English Version
You, Lord, know every one of my deepest desires, and my noisy groans are no secret to you.

Complete Jewish Bible
I am numb, completely crushed; my anguished heart makes me groan aloud.

Darby Translation
Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my sighing is not hid from thee.

Easy-to-Read Version
My Lord, you heard my groaning. You can hear my sighs.

George Lamsa Translation
O LORD, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hidden from thee.

Good News Translation
O Lord, you know what I long for; you hear all my groans.

Lexham English Bible
O Lord, all my longing is before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you.

Literal Translation
My Lord, all my desire is before You, and my sighing is not hidden from You.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
LORDE, thou knowest all my desyre, & my gronynge is not hyd from the.

American Standard Version
Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am benumbed and sore crushed; I groan by reason of the moaning of my heart.

King James Version (1611)
Lord, all my desire is before thee: and my groning is not hid from thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Lorde thou knowest all my desire: and my gronyng is not hyd from thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hidden from thee.

English Revised Version
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, al my desire is bifor thee; and my weilyng is not hid fro thee.

Update Bible Version
Lord, all my desire is before you; And my groaning is not hid from you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Lord, all my desire [is] before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

New King James Version
Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.

New Living Translation
You know what I long for, Lord; you hear my every sigh.

New Life Bible
Lord, all my desire is before You. And my breathing deep within is not hidden from You.

New Revised Standard
O Lord, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O My Lord! before thee, is all my longing, and, my sighing, from thee, hath not been hid:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(37-10) Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden from thee.

Revised Standard Version
Lord, all my longing is known to thee, my sighing is not hidden from thee.

Young's Literal Translation
Lord, before Thee [is] all my desire, And my sighing from Thee hath not been hid.

THE MESSAGE
Lord, my longings are sitting in plain sight, my groans an old story to you. My heart's about to break; I'm a burned-out case. Cataracts blind me to God and good; old friends avoid me like the plague. My cousins never visit, my neighbors stab me in the back. My competitors blacken my name, devoutly they pray for my ruin. But I'm deaf and mute to it all, ears shut, mouth shut. I don't hear a word they say, don't speak a word in response. What I do, God , is wait for you, wait for my Lord, my God—you will answer! I wait and pray so they won't laugh me off, won't smugly strut off when I stumble.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You.

Contextual Overview

¹ O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion. ² For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand. ³ My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength. ⁵ My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour. ⁶ I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day. ⁷ For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy. ⁸ I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart. ⁹ Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you. ¹⁰ My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lord: Instead of adonay, "Lord," several manuscripts read yehowah, "Jehovah."

groaning: Psalms 102:5, Psalms 102:20, John 1:48, Romans 8:22, Romans 8:23, Romans 8:26, Romans 8:27, 2 Corinthians 5:2

Reciprocal: Psalms 6:6 - I am Psalms 69:5 - hid Psalms 69:19 - mine Matthew 6:8 - your Luke 8:47 - when 2 Corinthians 7:11 - vehement

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 25:6
Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.

Ruth 1:11
But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands?

Ruth 4:10
And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day.

Job 5:2
For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

Titus 3:3
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

James 3:16
For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

James 4:5
Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lord, all my desire [is] before thee,.... To be delivered from his afflictions, to have a discovery and application of pardoning grace, and to have communion with his God: the desire of his soul was unto these things; and it was some satisfaction to him that it was before the Lord, and known unto him, before whom all things are naked and open;

and my groaning is not hid from thee; under the weight of his affliction, the burden of his sin, and which he expressed in prayer to the Lord, and which is often done with groanings which cannot be uttered: but even these are known and understood by the Lord.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lord, all my desire is before thee - That is, Thou knowest all that I would ask or that I need. This is the expression of one who felt that his only hope was in God, and that He fully understood the case. There was no need of repeating the request. He was willing to leave the whole case with God.

And my groaning is not hid from thee - My sighing; the expression of my sorrow and anguish. As God certainly heard these sighs, and as He wholly understood the case, David hoped that He would mercifully interpose in his behalf.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 38:9. Lord, all my desire is before thee — I long for nothing so much as thy favour; and for this my heart is continually going out after thee. Instead of אדני Adonai, Lord, several of Dr. Kennicott's MSS. have יהוהYehovah.