Psalm 38:6 “I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.”

Psalm 38:6

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

World English Bible

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

American Standard Version

I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Geneva Bible 1599

I am bowed, and crooked very sore: I goe mourning all the day.

Darby Translation

I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.

Young's Literal Translation

I have been bent down, I have been bowed down — unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.

Bible in Basic English

I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

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Cross references

“bowed”

Psalm 35:14 Psalm 42:5 Psalm 145:14 Psalm 57:6

Psalm 35:14 · BSB

I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.

Psalm 42:5 · BSB

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.

Psalm 145:14 · BSB

The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

Psalm 57:6 · BSB

They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah

“mourning”

Job 30:28 Psalm 42:9 Psalm 31:10 Psalm 43:2 Psalm 6:6 Psalm 88:9

Job 30:28 · BSB

I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

Psalm 42:9 · BSB

I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

Psalm 31:10 · BSB

For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

Psalm 43:2 · BSB

For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

Psalm 6:6 · BSB

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

Psalm 88:9 · BSB

My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.

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

In context

5My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

7For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.

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