Psalms 38:4

Psalms 38:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
• New International Version (NIV)My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For my iniquities have gone over my head; Like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Context of Psalms 38:4

2For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me. 3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear. 5My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly. 6I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

Psalms 38:4 word by word

כִּ֣י עֲ֭וֹנֹתַי עָבְר֣וּ רֹאשִׁ֑י כְּמַשָּׂ֥א כָ֝בֵ֗ד יִכְבְּד֥וּ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃Read the interlinear

• Forכִּיkîy · forH3588
• my iniquitiesעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
• have overwhelmedעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• meרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
• they are a burdenמַשָּׂאmaώώâ' · burdenH4853
• too heavyכָּבֵדkâbêd · heavyH3515
• to bearכָּבֵדkâbad kâbêd · to honor: heavyH3513
• to bearמִן־min minnîy minnêy · fromH4480

Cross-references for Psalms 38:4

• Psalms 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
• Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
• Leviticus 7:18If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
• Isaiah 53:11After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
• Lamentations 1:14My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
• Matthew 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
• 1 Peter 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

Commentaries on Psalms 38:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Mine iniquities are gone over mine head - He represents himself as one sinking in deep waters, or as one oppressed by a burden to which his strength was unequal.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4For mine iniquities are gone over mine head - This is merely an enlargement of the idea suggested in the last verse - that his present sickness was to be traced to his sin, and that he was suffering the punishment for sin. The idea is here that his sins were very numerous and very aggravated. They had risen up around him, or had so accumulated that the mass rose, like waves of the sea, above his head. A somewhat similar idea - though the thought there…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4The psalmist feels burdened because of sin (see Psalms 40:12; 41:4; compare Genesis 4:13).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-221-4. He deprecates deserved punishment, which is described (Psa 6:1), under the figure of bodily disease [Psa 38:3].Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 38:4

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Conviction
• Prayer
• Remorse
• Repentance
• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Afar
• Arrow
• Deceit
• Fret
• Plague
• Bring
• Burden
• Heavy; Heaviness
• Pentateuch
• Psalms, Book of

Commentaries on Psalms 38

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings