KJV King James Version
For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.
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Psalm 38:17
For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
WEB World English Bible
For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
ASV American Standard Version
For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For I am ready to halt, And my pain is before me continually.
Surrounding context — Psalm 38
14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth [are] no reproofs.
15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, [Hear me], lest [otherwise] they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify [themselves] against me.
17 For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.
18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
19 But mine enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow [the thing that] good [is].
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Psalm 35:15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:Psalm 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.Isaiah 53:3-5He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.Micah 4:6-7In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;Psalm 77:2-3In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.Psalm 38:6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
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