Psalm 38:5

New American Bible - revised edition

My iniquities overwhelm me, a burden too heavy for me.

Cross References

Ezra 9:6

I said: “My God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to raise my face to you, my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads and our guilt reaches up to heaven.

Psalm 32:3

Because I kept silent, my bones wasted away; I groaned all day long.

Psalm 38:7

I am stooped and deeply bowed; every day I go about mourning.

Psalm 40:13

But evils surround me until they cannot be counted. My sins overtake me, so that I can no longer see. They are more numerous than the hairs of my head; my courage fails me.

Psalm 65:4

with its burden of wicked deeds. We are overcome by our sins; only you can pardon them.

Psalm 69:5

More numerous than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause. Those who would destroy me are mighty, my enemies without reason. Must I now restore what I did not steal?

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead, no healer there? Why does new flesh not grow over the wound of the daughter of my people?