Psalm 38:17 “For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.”

Psalm 38:17

For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

World English Bible

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

American Standard Version

For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

Geneva Bible 1599

Surely I am ready to halte, and my sorow is euer before me.

Darby Translation

For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.

Young's Literal Translation

For I am ready to halt, And my pain [is] before me continually.

Bible in Basic English

My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

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Cross references

“to halt”

Psalm 35:15 Micah 4:6 Micah 4:7

Psalm 35:15 · BSB

But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

Micah 4:6 · BSB

“On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted.

Micah 4:7 · BSB

And I will make the lame into a remnant, the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.

“sorrow”

Psalm 6:6 Psalm 38:6 Isaiah 53:3–5 Psalm 77:2 Psalm 77:3

Psalm 6:6 · BSB

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

Psalm 38:6 · BSB

I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

Isaiah 53:3–5 · BSB

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Psalm 77:2 · BSB

In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 77:3 · BSB

I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”

18Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.

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