KJV King James Version
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
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Psalm 38:4
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
WEB World English Bible
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
ASV American Standard Version
For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden—too heavy for me.
Surrounding context — Psalm 38
1 A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
3 [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds stink [and] are corrupt because of my foolishness.
6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh.
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Psalm 40:12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.Ezra 9:6And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over [our] head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.Matthew 11:28Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Lamentations 1:14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise up.1 Peter 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.Isaiah 53:11He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.Leviticus 7:18And if [any] of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
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