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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Psalms 38:9

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Conviction;   Faith;   God Continued...;   Thompson Chain Reference - Desire;   Desire-Satisfaction;   Hunger;   Spiritual;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Zion;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Groan;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 25;   Every Day Light - Devotion for December 31;  

Parallel Translations

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.
Bible in Basic English
Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.
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

1Lord, do not punish me in your angeror discipline me in your wrath. 2For your arrows have sunk into me,and your hand has pressed down on me. 3There is no soundness in my bodybecause of your indignation;there is no health in my bonesbecause of my sin. 4For my iniquities have flooded over my head;they are a burden too heavy for me to bear. 5My wounds are foul and festeringbecause of my foolishness. 6I am bent over and brought very low;all day long I go around in mourning. 7For my insides are full of burning pain,and there is no soundness in my body. 8I am faint and severely crushed;I groan because of the anguish of my heart. 9Lord, my every desire is in front of you;my sighing is not hidden from you.10My heart races, my strength leaves me,and even the light of my eyes has faded.

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
The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
Ruth 1:11
But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Am I able to have any more sons who could become your husbands?
Ruth 4:10
I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to perpetuate the deceased man’s name on his property, so that his name will not disappear among his relatives or from the gate of his hometown. You are witnesses today.”
Job 5:2
For anger kills a fool,and jealousy slays the gullible.
Proverbs 27:4
Fury is cruel, and anger a flood,but who can withstand jealousy?
Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.
James 3:16
For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.
James 4:5
Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?

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.


 
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