Psalm 40:12 - The Scriptures 1998

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For innumerable evils have compassed me about; my iniquities have taken such hold on me that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me and forsaken me.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² 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.

Common English Bible

¹² because countless evils surround me. My wrongdoings have caught up with me— I can’t see a thing! There’s more of them than hairs on my head— my courage leaves me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² By this, I knew that you preferred me: because my adversary will not rejoice over me.

Psalm 40:12 Cross References

Genesis 42:28

And he said to his brothers, “My silver has been returned, and there it is, in my sack!” And their hearts sank and they were afraid, saying to each other, “What is this that Elohim has done to us?”

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death were around me, And the pains of the grave came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.

Psalm 19:12

Who discerns mistakes? Declare me innocent from those that are secret,

Psalm 38:4

For my crookednesses have passed over my head; Like a heavy burden, too heavy for me.

Psalm 61:8

So I sing praise to Your Name forever, When I pay my vows day by day.

Psalm 69:4

Those who hate me without a cause Are more than the hairs of my head; They are mighty who would destroy me, My lying enemies; What I did not steal, I restored.

Psalm 73:26

My flesh and my heart shall waste away, But Elohim is the rock of my heart And my portion forever.

Isaiah 53:6

We all, like sheep, went astray, each one of us has turned to his own way. And יהוה  has laid on Him the crookedness of us all.

Luke 21:26

men fainting from fear and the expectation of what is coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a High Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who was tried in all respects as we are, apart from sin.

1 Peter 3:18

Because even Messiah once suffered for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to Elohim, having been put to death indeed in flesh but made alive in the Spirit,