Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
My iniquities loom over my head; like a cumbersome burden, they are too heavy for me.
New American Standard Bible
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.
King James Version
For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Holman Bible
they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.
A Conservative Version
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
American Standard Version
For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Amplified
For my iniquities have gone over my head [like the waves of a flood];
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.
Darby Translation
For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Julia Smith Translation
No soundness in my flesh from thy wrath; no peace in my bones from the face of my sins.
King James 2000
For my iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Modern King James verseion
For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For my wickednesses are gone over my head, and are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear.
NET Bible
For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.
New Heart English Bible
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
The Emphasized Bible
For, mine iniquities, have passed over my head, Like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me:
Webster
For my iniquities have gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
World English Bible
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
Youngs Literal Translation
For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden -- too heavy for me.
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 38:4
Prayers for Psalm 38:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Of A Suffering Sinner
3 My body is unhealthy due to your anger, and my bones have no rest due to my sin. 4 My iniquities loom over my head; like a cumbersome burden, they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds have putrefied and festered because of my foolishness.
Names
Cross References
Ezra 9:6
and said,
Psalm 40:12
Innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me so that I cannot see. They are more in number than the hair on my head, and my courage has forsaken me.
Leviticus 7:18
If any of the meat of his sacrifice of peace offerings is eaten on the third day, it won't be accepted for the one who brought it. It is to be considered as refuse, and whoever eats it will bear the punishment of his iniquity."
Isaiah 53:11
Out of the suffering of his soul he will see light and find satisfaction. And through his knowledge his servant, the righteous one, will make many righteous, and he will bear their iniquities.
Lamentations 1:14
The yoke of my sins was bound on, fastened together by his hand. They settled on my neck; he caused my strength to fail. The LORD placed me in the power of those I cannot resist.
Matthew 11:28
"Come to me, all of you who are weary and loaded down with burdens, and I will give you rest.
1 Peter 2:24
"He himself bore our sins" in his body on the tree, so that we might die to those sins and live righteously. "By his wounds you have been healed."