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 that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
• Ps 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
• Ps 38:8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
• Ps 22:1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
• Lam 3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
• Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
• Hos 7:14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
• Ps 31:9–10Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
• Ps 6:2Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
• Ps 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
• Jer 31:18–19I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
• Lam 1:3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
• Isa 51:20Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
• Isa 59:11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
• Lam 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
• Isa 57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
• 2 Sam 11:27And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
• Luke 15:15–16And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
• Gen 3:8–19And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
• Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
• Ps 102:3–5For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
• Job 30:17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
• 2 Sam 21:12–14And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
• 1 Sam 31:13And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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