Psalm 38:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ For my crookednesses have passed over my head; Like a heavy 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.

Psalm 38:4 Cross References

Ezra 9:6

and said, “O my Elohim, I am too ashamed and wounded to lift up my face to You, my Elohim, for our crookednesses have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.

Job 33:19

And he is reproved with pain on his bed, and with unceasing distress in his bones,

Psalm 107:17

Fools, because of their transgression, And because of their crookednesses, were afflicted.

Psalm 40:12

For evils without number have surrounded me; My crookednesses have overtaken me, And I have been unable to see; They became more than the hairs of my head; And my heart has failed me.

Isaiah 53:11

He would see the result of the suffering of His life and be satisfied. Through His knowledge My righteous Servant makes many righteous, and He bears their crookednesses.

Lamentations 1:14

“The yoke of my transgressions Has been bound by His hand, Woven together and thrust upon my neck. He has made my strength stumble, יהוה  has given me into hands Which I am unable to withstand.

Leviticus 7:18

‘However, if any of the flesh of his peace offering is eaten at all on the third day, it is not accepted. It is not reckoned to him who brings it, it is unclean to him, and the being who eats of it bears his crookedness.

Matthew 11:28

“Come to Me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I shall give you rest.

1 Peter 2:24

who Himself bore our sins in His body on the timber, so that we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed.