Psalms 32:3
What does Psalms 32:3 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 32:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
KJV
King James Version · 1611When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou sofar from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
- Psalms 38:8
I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
- Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
- Proverbs 28:13
He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; But whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.
- Isaiah 51:20
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.
- Isaiah 57:17
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid my face and was wroth; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
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