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 · 2000

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.

Context

v.2Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no guile.

v.3This passage

v.4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. [Selah

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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