King James Version
Psalms 32:3
3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms 32:3 in other versions
- New International Version (NIV)When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- New King James Version (NKJV)When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long.
- New Living Translation (NLT)When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long.
Context of Psalms 32:3
1Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. 5I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
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כִּֽי־הֶ֭חֱרַשְׁתִּי בָּל֣וּ עֲצָמָ֑י בְּ֝שַׁאֲגָתִ֗י כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 32:3
- Genesis 3:8And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
- 1 Samuel 31:13And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
- 2 Samuel 11:27And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
- 2 Samuel 12:1And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
- 2 Samuel 21:12And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh–gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth–shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
- Proverbs 28:13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
- Isaiah 57:17For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
- Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.
- Luke 15:15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
- Psalms 6:2Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
- Psalms 31:9Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
- Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
- Psalms 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
- Psalms 102:3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- Job 30:17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
- Lamentations 1:3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Commentaries on Psalms 32:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3When I kept silence - Before I humbled myself, and confessed my sin, my soul was under the deepest horror. "I roared all the day long;" and felt the hand of God heavy upon my soul.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3When I kept silence - The psalmist now proceeds to state his condition of mind before he himself found this peace, or before he had this evidence of pardon; the state in which he felt deeply that he was a sinner, yet was unwilling to confess his sin, and attempted to conceal it in his own heart. This he refers to by the expression, “When I kept silence;” that is, before I confessed my sin, or before I made mention of it to God. The condition of mind was…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 3-7Verses 3-7 It is very difficult to bring sinful man humbly to accept free mercy, with a full confession of his sins and self-condemnation. But the true and only way to peace of conscience, is, to confess our sins, that they may be forgiven; to declare them that we may be justified. Although repentance and confession do not merit the pardon of transgression, they are needful to the real enjoyment of forgiving mercy. And what tongue can tell the happiness…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-5The psalmist admits his sin (see Psalms 19:12–13; 25:7, 11, 15–22) and his resistance to confessing sin. The Lord pressed him hard until he confessed his guilt.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-43-4. A vivid description of felt, but unacknowledged, sin. When--literally, "for," as in Psa 32:4.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 32
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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