KJV King James Version
For 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.
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Psalm 40:12
For 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
WEB World English Bible
For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
ASV American Standard Version
For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.
Surrounding context — Psalm 40
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
12 For 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.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
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כִּ֤יH3588 · kiforאָפְפ֥וּ־H661 · a.phaphto surroundעָלַ֨י׀H5921 · aluponרָע֡וֹתH7451 · rabad: harmfulעַד־H5704 · adtillאֵ֬יןH369 · a.yinnothingמִסְפָּ֗רH4557 · mis.parnumberהִשִּׂיג֣וּנִיH5381 · na.sagto overtakeעֲ֭וֹנֹתַיH5771 · a.vaniniquity: crimeוְלֹא־H3808 · lonotיָכֹ֣לְתִּיH3201 · ya.kholbe ableלִרְא֑וֹתH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeעָצְמ֥וּH6105 · a.tsombe vastמִשַּֽׂעֲר֥וֹתH8185 · sa.a.rahhairרֹ֝אשִׁ֗יH7218 · roshheadוְלִבִּ֥יH3820 · levheartעֲזָבָֽנִי׃H5800 · a.zavto leave: forsake
Cross-references
Psalm 38:4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.Psalm 73:26My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.Psalm 69:4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.Isaiah 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.Psalm 19:12Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].Psalm 116:3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.Luke 18:13-14And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as [his] eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.Psalm 22:11-19Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help.1 Peter 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:Luke 21:26Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.Hebrews 4:15For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.Genesis 42:28And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, [it is] even in my sack: and their heart failed [them], and they were afraid, saying one to another, What [is] this [that] God hath done unto us?
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