Psalm 38:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: As an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For my iniquities have gone over my head [like waves of a flood]; as a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

American Standard Version (1901)

For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Common English Bible

My wrongdoings are stacked higher than my head; they are a weight that’s way too heavy for me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

My heart grew hot within me, and, during my meditation, a fire would flare up.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

Psalm 38:4 Cross References

Ezra 9:6

and said, “O my God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

Job 33:19

They are also chastened with pain upon their beds and with continual strife in their bones,

Psalm 107:17

Some were sick through their sinful ways and because of their iniquities endured affliction;

Psalm 40:12

For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me until I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

Isaiah 53:11

Out of his anguish he shall see; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

Lamentations 1:14

My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they weigh on my neck, sapping my strength; the Lord handed me over to those whom I cannot withstand.

Leviticus 7:18

If any of the flesh of your sacrifice of well-being is eaten on the third day, it shall not be acceptable, nor shall it be credited to the one who offers it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall incur guilt.

Matthew 11:28

“Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.