Psalm 38:4 {37:5}
Good News Translation
I am drowning in the flood of my sins; they are a burden too heavy to bear.

New Revised Standard Version
For my iniquities have gone over my head; they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.

Contemporary English Version
are so heavy that I am crushed.

New American Bible
My iniquities overwhelm me, a burden too heavy for me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.

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Psalm 40:12 For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Ezra 9:6 And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven,

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Leviticus 7:18 If any man eat of the flesh of the victim of peace offerings on the third day, the oblation shall be of no effect: neither shall it profit the offerer. Yea rather, whatsoever soul shall defile itself with such meat, shall be guilty of transgression.

Isaiah 53:11 Because his soul hath laboured, he shall see and be filled: by his knowledge shall this my just servant justify many, and he shall bear their iniquities.

Lamentations 1:14 Nun. The yoke of my iniquities hath watched: they are folded together in his hand, and put upon my neck: my strength is weakened: the Lord hath delivered me into a hand, out of which I am not able to rise.

Matthew 11:28 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

Context
Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
3There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins. 4For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.5My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness.…
Cross References
Ezra 9:6
And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven,

Psalm 40:12
For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Psalm 65:3
The words of the wicked have prevailed over us: and thou wilt pardon our transgressions.

Psalm 38:3
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