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Psalms 32:3
3When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 32:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the 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 the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. 2Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit. When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. 5Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.” And you forgave the guilt of my sin.
Read all of Psalms 32Psalms 32:3 word by word
כִּֽי־הֶ֭חֱרַשְׁתִּי בָּל֣וּ עֲצָמָ֑י בְּ֝שַׁאֲגָתִ֗י כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 32:3
- Genesis 3:8Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
- 1 Samuel 31:13Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.
- 2 Samuel 11:27After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord.
- 2 Samuel 12:1The Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, “There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor.
- 2 Samuel 21:12he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. (They had stolen their bodies from the public square at Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)
- Proverbs 28:13Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
- Isaiah 57:17I was enraged by their sinful greed; I punished them, and hid my face in anger, yet they kept on in their willful ways.
- Jeremiah 31:18“I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the Lord my God.
- Luke 15:15So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
- Psalms 6:2Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint; heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
- Psalms 31:9Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief.
- Psalms 38:3Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.
- Psalms 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
- Psalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Job 30:17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
- Lamentations 1:3After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
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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