Psalm 38:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ 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

⁴ For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: As an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ 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)

⁴ For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Common English Bible

⁴ My wrongdoings are stacked higher than my head; they are a weight that’s way too heavy for me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ My heart grew hot within me, and, during my meditation, a fire would flare up.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

Psalm 38:4 Cross References

Ezra 9:6

saying: “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

Job 33:19

“Man is also chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones;

Psalm 107:17

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

Psalm 40:12

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

Isaiah 53:11

he shall see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted 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 were set upon my neck; he caused my strength to fail; the Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand.

Leviticus 7:18

If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be credited to him; it shall be an abomination, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

Matthew 11:28

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.