Psalms 32:3

When David kept silent about his sin, his body wasted away through groaning. It describes the misery of unconfessed sin.

Cross-references · 24

• Prov 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
• Ps 38:3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
• Ps 38:8I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
• Ps 22:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
• Lam 3:8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
• Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
• Hos 7:14They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
• Ps 31:9–10Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
• Ps 6:2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
• Ps 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
• Jer 31:18–19I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
• Lam 1:3Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
• Isa 51:20Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
• Isa 59:11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
• Lam 3:4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
• Isa 57:17I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
• 2 Sam 11:27And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
• Luke 15:15–16So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
• Gen 3:8–19Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
• Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
• Ps 102:3–5For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
• Job 30:17Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
• 2 Sam 21:12–14he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.
• 1 Sam 31:13Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

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