For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
Parallel translations
- KJV For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
- BSB For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
- NKJV For my life is spent with grief, And my years with sighing; My strength fails because of my iniquity, And my bones waste away.
- NASB For my life is spent with sorrow And my years with sighing; My strength has failed because of my guilt, And my body has wasted away.
- NLT I am dying from grief; my years are shortened by sadness. Sin has drained my strength; I am wasting away from within.
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- Ps 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
- Ps 32:3–4When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- Ps 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
- Ps 78:33Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
- Rom 9:2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
- Ps 39:11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
- Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
- Ps 13:2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
- Ps 102:3–28For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- Ps 71:9Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.
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