Psalms 32:3

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Psalms 32:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

2 Blessed is the man whose iniquity the LORD does not count against him, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

3 When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

5 Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

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Genesis 3:8

Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:9

But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”

Genesis 3:10

“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Genesis 3:11

“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

Genesis 3:12

And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Genesis 3:13

Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”

Genesis 3:14

So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Genesis 3:16

To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:18

Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

1 Samuel 31:13

Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

2 Samuel 11:27

And when 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 that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.

2 Samuel 12:1

Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.

2 Samuel 12:2

The rich man had a great number of sheep and cattle,

2 Samuel 12:3

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

2 Samuel 12:4

Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”

2 Samuel 12:5

David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

2 Samuel 12:6

Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”

2 Samuel 12:7

Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

2 Samuel 12:8

I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more.

2 Samuel 12:9

Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 12:10

Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

2 Samuel 12:11

This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.

2 Samuel 12:12

You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”

2 Samuel 21:12

he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.

2 Samuel 21:13

So David had the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan brought from there, along with the bones of those who had been hanged.

2 Samuel 21:14

And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.

Proverbs 28:13

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

Isaiah 57:17

I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

Jeremiah 31:19

After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

Luke 15:15

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

Luke 15:16

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

Psalms 6:2

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

Psalms 31:9

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

Psalms 31:10

For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

Psalms 38:3

There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalms 51:8

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

Psalms 102:3

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

Psalms 102:4

My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

Psalms 102:5

Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.

Job 30:17

Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.

Job 30:30

My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

Lamentations 3:4

He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

Psalms 22:1

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

Psalms 38:8

I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

Job 3:24

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

Isaiah 51:20

Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

Lamentations 3:8

Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.