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 doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
• 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 38:8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
• Ps 22:1For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
• Lam 3:8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
• Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
• Hos 7:14They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
• Ps 31:9–10Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
• Ps 6:2Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
• Ps 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.
• Jer 31:18–19“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
• Lam 1:3Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
• Isa 51:20Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
• Isa 59:11We all roar like bears, and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
• Lam 3:4He has made my flesh and my skin old; he has broken my bones.
• Isa 57:17I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
• 2 Sam 11:27When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.
• Luke 15:15–16He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
• Gen 3:8–19They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
• Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
• Ps 102:3–5For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
• Job 30:17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
• 2 Sam 21:12–14So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
• 1 Sam 31:13They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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