KJV King James Version
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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Psalm 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
WEB World English Bible
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
ASV American Standard Version
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
Surrounding context — Psalm 32
1 [A Psalm] of David, Maschil. Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.
2 Blessed [is] the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit [there is] no guile.
3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
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Proverbs 28:13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.Psalm 38:8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.Psalm 38:3[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.Psalm 22:1To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring?Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.Hosea 7:14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.Psalm 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice.Psalm 6:2Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.Psalm 31:9-10Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.2 Samuel 11:27And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.Jeremiah 31:18-19I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.Isaiah 57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.Isaiah 59:11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us.Lamentations 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.Isaiah 51:20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.Lamentations 1:3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.Luke 15:15-16And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
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