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Psalms 38:17
Psalms 38:17 is verse 17 of Psalms chapter 38, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
King James Version
For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
World English Bible
For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
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Psalms 38:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible
15 I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
17 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.
18 Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
19 Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 35:15But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
Micah 4:6“On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted.
Micah 4:7And I will make the lame into a remnant, and the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
Psalms 38:6I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Psalms 77:2In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
Psalms 77:3I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Isaiah 53:4Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:5But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.