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Psalms 38:4
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For my iniquities have flooded over my head;they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
My guilt has overwhelmed me; like a load it weighs me down.
For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.
For my iniquities have gone over my head [like the waves of a flood]; As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.
For my guilty deeds have gone over my head; Like a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head, and as a weightie burden they are too heauie for me.
For my iniquities go over my head;As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.
For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
are so heavy that I am crushed.
Your indignation left no part of me intact; my sin made my whole body sick;
For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
My guilt is like a heavy burden. I am sinking beneath its weight.
For mine iniquities are gone over my head; as a great burden they are too heavy for me.
I am drowning in the flood of my sins; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
For my iniquities have passed over my head; as a heavy burden too heavy for me.
For my wickednesses are gone ouer my heade, and are like a sore burthen, to heuy forme to beare.
For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of Thine indignation; neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
For mine iniquities are gone ouer mine head: as an heauy burden, they are too heauie for me.
For my manyfolde wickednes is gone ouer my head: and like a sore burthen is to heauie for me to beare.
For my transgressions have gone over mine head: they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
For my wickidnessis ben goon ouer myn heed; as an heuy birthun, tho ben maad heuy on me.
For my iniquities have gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
For my iniquities have gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
For my iniquities have gone over my head; Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
My guilt overwhelms me— it is a burden too heavy to bear.
For my sins are gone over my head. Like a heavy load, they weigh too much for me.
For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.
For, mine iniquities, have passed over my head, Like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me:
(37-5) For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.
For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.
For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden -- too heavy for me.
For my iniquities are gone over my head; As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
mine: Psalms 40:12, Ezra 9:6
as an: Leviticus 7:18, Isaiah 53:11, Lamentations 1:14, Matthew 11:28, 1 Peter 2:24
Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:1 - bear Leviticus 22:16 - General Numbers 14:34 - shall ye bear Numbers 15:31 - his iniquity Psalms 39:10 - I am consumed Psalms 49:5 - iniquity Psalms 65:3 - prevail Isaiah 24:20 - the transgression Ezekiel 44:10 - bear Zechariah 5:8 - the weight Matthew 18:24 - ten thousand 2 Timothy 3:6 - laden
Cross-References
Judah's sons: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (Er and Onan had already died in the land of Canaan). The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Er and Onan were sons of Judah who died early on in Canaan. The sons of Judah by clans: Shelah and the Shelanite clan, Perez and the Perezite clan, Zerah and the Zerahite clan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and the Hezronite clan, Hamul and the Hamulite clan. These were the clans of Judah. They numbered 76,500.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head,.... Like an inundation of waters, as the waves and billows of the sea; for the waters to come up to the neck or chin shows great danger; but when they go over the head the case is desperate, and a person is sinking and drowning; compare with this Psalms 69:1; the simile may denote both the number and weight of sins, and also signifies the overwhelming distress the psalmist was in, under a view of them;
as an heavy burden, they are too heavy for me; the guilt of sin upon the conscience, without a view of pardon, lies heavy indeed, and makes a man a burden to himself, as it did Job, Job 7:20; yea, sin is not only grieving and afflicting to pardoned ones, and who know they are pardoned, but it is a burden to them under which they groan; nor is it possible for any so to bear it as to satisfy and make atonement for it; none but Christ could ever do this, and he has done it; nor is there any relief for burdened souls, but by looking to a sin bearing and sin atoning Saviour, and by casting the burden upon him, who invites them to him for rest.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head - This is merely an enlargement of the idea suggested in the last verse - that his present sickness was to be traced to his sin, and that he was suffering the punishment for sin. The idea is here that his sins were very numerous and very aggravated. They had risen up around him, or had so accumulated that the mass rose, like waves of the sea, above his head. A somewhat similar idea - though the thought there refers rather to the number of sins than the degree of guilt - occurs in Psalms 40:12 : “Mine iniquities ... are more than the hairs of my head.”
As an heavy burden ... - That is, they are so heavy that I cannot bear them, and my frame has sunk under them. This might mean either that the sense of sin was so great that he could not bear up under it, but had been crushed by it (compare Psalms 32:3-4); or that on account of sin, “as if” it were a heavy weight, he had been crushed by disease. The general idea is, that the real cause of his sickness was the fact that he was a great sinner, and that God was punishing him for it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 38:4. Mine iniquities are gone over mine head — He represents himself as one sinking in deep waters, or as one oppressed by a burden to which his strength was unequal.
